Health & biology · 1025

Canon of Medicine

Ibn Sina's five-volume encyclopedia of medicine taught doctors from Bukhara to Paris.

Completed in 1025, the Canon synthesised Greek, Persian and Indian medicine and introduced ideas such as drug testing criteria and contagion. It remained a standard textbook in European universities into the 1600s.

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Galenic medicine 170
Paper 105

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Life expectancy in the UK since 1543 Latest: 81.3 years (2023) Source: Our World in Data