 Writings in medicine occupy an important place in Ibn Rushd’s career. The practice of medicine was not his profession: “it is this part of medicine that I believe restrains me from being perfect in this art. And that I haven’t had much practice” (Kulliyyāt VII.517). Even so, he left many interesting texts: a Commentary on Ibn Sīnā’s Medical Poem, his al-Kulliyyāt (General Principles of Medicine), and various writings and commentaries on Galen. Indeed, it has been suggested that, near the end of Ibn Rushd’s career, he was forced to set aside his philosophical project of writing the long commentaries on Aristotle’s texts, and turn instead to Galen’s text on medicine (Al-ʿAlawī 1986a).