The Great Ones · Middle East & Persia
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

980–1037

Physician-philosopher whose Canon of Medicine shaped centuries of practice.

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980–1037) endures among the great of Middle East & Persia. Physician-philosopher whose Canon of Medicine shaped centuries of practice.

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