Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad)
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Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad · Jan 1994
Biography Historical ArticleAvicenna's contribution to the development and progress of medical sciences.
Avicenna was born in the village of Belkh near Bukhara in Persia. He was a very famous philosopher, wiseman and an efficient physician. ⋯ In medicine, the most celebrated of them is "Al-Qanun fil Tibb", which surpassed other similar books on medicine and considered the biggest medical encyclopaedia of his time. Those orientalists who believe in Greek medicine consider this book as the only textbook on the art of curing and recovery.