Avenzoar or Ibnu Zuhr was a greatest of the Arabian physicians of the western caliphate in 12th century. His full name was Abu Marwan Ibnu Zuhr. He was born at Seville, in Spain, where his father practiced medicine.
He was a teacher of Averroes.
Avenzoar justly holds a distinguished place among the Saracenic physicians from the extent of his medical observations and from the ingenious and critical modes of practice which they suggested to him.
He was remembered writing widely acclaimed text on tumors, abscess and therapeutics while serving as a court physician to both the Almoravid and Almohad courts.
His elaborate description of itch-mite had given him possibility the first parasitologist after Alexander of Tralles. He gave description of paralysis and inflammation of the middle ear and recommended goats milk in Phthisis.
He had a care of hospital and composed a work entitled Al-Taysir, containing a compendium of medical practice and including many facts and observations not found in preceding writers which were probably the result of his own experience.
The Taysir has been called ‘one of the most important books in the history of medicine’ and one that ‘deeply influenced the development of western medicine though Hebrew and Latin translations.’
Al-Taysir which also covered pharmacy and nutrition was translated into Latin as al-Thesier in 1820 and was studied at the major universities in Europe.
He died in the year 1162.
Biography of Avenzoar
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