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As I said some days ago that I will be sharing my research on ibn sina with you guys.
Muhammad Ali Ibn Sina popularly called by his latina name #Avicenna,was born in 980 C.E in the village of Afshina
near the present-day Bukhara (in Uzbekistan)
then a leading city in Persia (Iran.) His mother
Setareh was from the same village, while his
father Abdullah was Ismaili, who was a
respected local governor, under the Samanid
dynasty.
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At a young age ibn sina committed the whole Quran into memory at the age 8 years.
Avicenna learn metaphysics,geography, medicine,Physics,poetry etc. What is most striking about this great encyclopedist was,he acquired all this knowledge before the age of Seventeen years through self effort.
At a young age of 18 years, he cured the illness of Nuh ibn Mansur, the Sultan of
Bukhara of the Samanid Court.
And this gave him the opportunity to became the personal physician of this king.
He wrote about 270 books in his whole life. 40 among this books is on medicine, among them is his popular book called Canon of medicine (Al-Qanun Fih tibb).
This book was printed in
Europe at least 60 times between 1516 and
The Canon of medicine remained a major authority for
medical students in the world until 17 century. This book was used in many European medical universities like Louvain,Montpellier etc.
First chapter of this book was used for the description of the human
body, anatomy, physiology and includes
all of the features.Second chapter gave a list of almost 800 medicine which can be used as treatments for almost 800 illness. Third chapter of this book gave treatment methods and all the diseases
that can occur in the body. The fourth chapter of this book gave information about the
illnesses that can occur in the human
body, swelling and sorenesses, skin
diseases, poisoning, orthopaedic problems and surgery and
treatments for them.And the fifth chapter gave the list of almost 650 complex drugs, production of these drugs
and their properties.
Try to read this book (Canon of medicine) and you will see the greatness of Avicenna.
Canon of medicine is the only medical textbooks that was mostly used and most acceptable by all medical experts since the creation of the earth.
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Avicenna is not only the greatest of his time but greatest of all time. Even the likes of Hippocrates (Greek father of medicine) and Galinos can not stand the geniosity of this great man.
He was the first person to Discovered, anquilostoma for the first
time in the medicine history. He
diagnosed cancer and suggested
removing the tissue surgically early as a
treatment. Discovered that stomach
ulcer occur in two ways; psychological
and organic. Was the first doctor to
mention that in the urine of diabetics
there are sugar and tested urine and
stool for diagnosing and used mercury
vapor as a drug.
Our encyclopedists of medicine Ibn Sina,died in Ray in 1037 CE at the age of 57 years.