Ibn Sina

Ibn Sina, known in the Latin West as Avicenna, was a Persian physician and polymath whose Canon of Medicine systematized Greek, Islamic and Persian medical knowledge into a single organized reference. Translated into Latin in the twelfth century, the Canon remained a standard medical textbook in European universities into the seventeenth century, longer than almost any other medical work in history. This entry describes his medical work specifically; his philosophical work is a separate facet of the same historical figure held elsewhere in the family of atlases. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.