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Abu Ali al-Husayn Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina, familiar to many in the West as Avicenna, was one of Islam's most famous and influential philosopher-scientists. Born in 980 CE in Afshana, a village near Bukhara in Turkestan, he spent his youth in the company of great sages - a gainful start to a career that began as court philosopher to Shams ad-Dawlah, King of Hamadan. Abu Ali al-Husayn Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina, familiar to many in the West as Avicenna, was Ibn Sina's legacy is manifest is so many areas. The heart specialist of his day, he produced volumes on cardiology that continue to be of relevance. His clinical insight was unparalleled, he was the first to describe correctly meningitis and his rules for testing new drugs still form the basis of modern clinical drug trials. It is perhaps for his encyclopaedic Book of Healing and his famous Canon of Medicine that Ibn Sina is more instantly remembered. It is through these master compositions that one learns of the truly holistic nature of Ibn Sina's practice. By separating and identifying the physical, the psychological and the environmental symptoms, he would draw out the aspects that contributed to an illness and use the same methodology to provide treatment. After centuries of development and refining, the fields of disease prevention and health promotion of health - comprising entire industries in the West - owe much to the tireless research of Ibn Sina. |
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