For Avicenna's life, see Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, translated by McG.
An edition of the Arabic text has been printed at Bulaq, (7 vols., 1867) and a part of the work has been translated by the late Baron McG.
Quatremere (3 vols., Paris, 1858), often republished in the East, and a French translation was made by McG.
For life of Asma`i, see Ibn Khallik5n, Biographical Dictionary, translated from the Arabic by McG.
He received atropine 500 mcg premedication and then topical local anesthesia to the mucosa of his upper airway.