Avicenna

(av′i sen′ə)

(Ar. ībn-sīnā) 980-1037; Arab physician & philosopher in Persia

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Persian physician and Neo-Platonist philosopher noted for his Canon of Medicine, a standard medical textbook used in Europe until the 17th century.

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