Al-Majusi
Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi, that is, the Magian, which means that he, or his father was of the Zoroastrian faith, was a famous Persian physician.
His latin name was Ali Abbas or Hall Abbas, and was Born in Ahwaz, southwestern Persia. He flourished under the Buwayhid Amir Adhad al-dowleh, and died in 994AD.
He is considered one of the three greatest physicians of the Eastern Caliphate, in his time. He wrote for Adhud al-dowleh a medical encyclopedia called The Complete Book of the Medical Art (Kitab al-Maliki, Liber regius, regalis dispositio; also called Kamil al-sana 'a al-tibbiya), which is more systematic and concise than Razi's Hawi, but more practical than Avicenna'a Canons, by which it was superseded. It was dedicated to Adhud al-Dawlah Fana-Khusraw.
The Maliki is divided into 20 discourses, of which the first half deal with theory and the other with the practice of medicine. the best parts of it are those devoted to dietetics and to materia medica. Rudimentary conception of the capillary system. Interesting clinical observations. Proof of the motions of the womb during parturition (e.g. the child does not come out; it is pushed out)
Sources
Wustenfeld: Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte (59, 1840).
See also
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