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Avicen`na

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Avie`nus, Rufus Festus
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An illustrious Arabian physician, surnamed the prince of physicians, a man of immense learning and extensive practice in his art; of authority in philosophy as well as in medicine, his philosophy being of the school of Aristotle with a mixture of Neoplatonism, his "Canon of Medicine," being the supreme in medical science for centuries (980-1037).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Avicen`na'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/avicenna.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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