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Ibn Sina
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Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, wrote The Canon of Medicine around 1025, a five volume systemization of Greek, Indian and Islamic medical knowledge that set out rules for testing a drug's effect: try it on an uncomplicated case, observe the same result across repeated trials, and rule out other causes before crediting the drug. The Canon remained a standard medical textbook in European universities into the seventeenth century. He also wrote extensively on logic and metaphysics, and served as a court physician and administrator across several Persian and Central Asian courts.
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- Also in Divinity Atlas: Avicenna, the same subject.
- Also in Medicine Atlas: Ibn Sina, the same subject.
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Ibn Sina (c. 980 – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( A(H)V-ih-SEN-ə), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world.
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