Note G — SECTION FOURTH
Edward Abbott Van Dyck translation
See Ibn Sînâ’s «Qânûn,» Section 2, where he says: As to the nutritive power, it is that power which transforms the nutriment into a resemblance with the nourishment-taker, in order that this nutriment may succeed in the stead of what shall be wasted, and attach itself to the taker instead of the waste.—See also «Kitâb-ul-Najât,» by Ibn Sînâ.