Avicenna
was a physician, naturalist, and writer. He studied
philosophy, logic, medicine and at the age of 16 took
up medical practice. He produced possibly 100
treatises of varying lengths. His work Canon of
Medicine was widely read for several centuries and
was the recognized guide of medical study in European
Universities from the 12th to the 17th Centuries.
Along with Aristotle and Pliny he was
continuously quoted by 13th Century writers.
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