Brewer's: Abou ebn Sina

commonly called Avicenna. A great Persian physician, born at Shiraz, whose canons of medicine were those adopted by Hippocrates and Aristotle. Died 1037.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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