مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 309.e118.1

309.e118.1

A physician through whom bodies are protected and through whom the best of portions are fully granted. Were old age to return to him, he would restore to it the garment of its youth and exchange the shroud of grey hair for its cloak. He settled souls in their bodies and brought soundness back to their corruption, so that they settled firmly, removed harm, and made peace with the bodies, no longer recoiling from them nor drawing away from their union. Thus they cast off the after-effects of sickness and seized the heels of the incurable disease even when it had swallowed [the patient], and through him health was found when meeting it had become rare, and the term was prolonged when hope of its continuance had been lost.