Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine

Avicenna's Canon organized all medical knowledge of its day into a systematic encyclopedia of diseases, drugs and clinical method.

Why it matters

The Canon was a standard medical text in Europe and Asia into the 1600s. Its core method — observe, classify, test treatments — is clinical medicine's enduring skeleton, written in Isfahan's century.

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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Sources

• Encyclopædia Britannica — Avicenna