'And Moses chose seventy men of his tribe to [attend] our appointed time；to each man a pair of eyes.'
And the set portion which lacks the formula'To whom [God]belong might and majesty，'is that which comprises the chapters'The Hour draweth nigh and the Moon is cloven in twain，'The Compassionate'and 'The Event.'And the professor departed in confusion.
Then came forward the skilled physician and said to her'We have done with theology and come now to physiology. Tell me，thereforehow is man madehow many veinsbones and vertebr忙are there in his bodywhich is the chief vein and why Adam was named Adam？'Adam was called Adam，'answered she'because of the udmehto witthe tawny colour of his complexion and also（it is said）because he was created of the adim of the earth，that is to sayof the soil of its surface. His breast was made of the earth of the Kaabehhis head of earth from the East and his legs of earth from the West. There were created for him seven doors [or openings] in his headto witthe eyesthe earsthe nostrils and the mouthand two passagesthe urethra and the anus. The eyes were made the seat of the sense of sightthe ears of that of hearingthe nostrils of that of smellthe mouth of that of taste and the tongue to speak forth what is in the innermost heart of man. Adam was originally created of four elements combinedwaterearthfire and air.
The yellow bile is the humour of firebeing hot and drythe black bile that of earthbeing cold and drythe phlegm that of waterbeing cold and moistand the blood that of air，being hot and moist. There are in man three hundred and threescore veinstwo hundred and forty bones and three souls[or natures]the animalthe rational and the essential or[natural]to each of which is allotted a separate function.
MoreoverGod made him a heart and spleen and lungs and six guts and a liver and two kidneys and marrow [or brain] and buttocks and bones and skin and five senseshearingseeing，smelltaste and touch. The heart He set on the left side of the breast and made the stomach the exemplar [or governor]thereof. He appointed the lungs for a ventilator to the heart and set the liver on the right sideopposite thereto. Moreover，He madebesides thisthe midriff and the intestines and set up the bones of the breast and ribbed them with the ribs.'