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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

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All disciplines Medicine55 Public Health6 Nutrition9 Psychology9 Integrative Medicine21 Functional Medicine9 Traditional Chinese Medicine11 Ayurveda10

Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.

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Al-Razi (Rhazes)

854 – 925

Distinguished smallpox from measles and pioneered clinical case records.

Iran·Medicine · Chemistry

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

980 – 1037

Wrote the medical textbook that trained Europe's doctors until 1650.

Uzbekistan·Medicine · Philosophy · AstronomyFull profile

Avicenna's student Al-Juzjani

980 – 1070

Preserved and completed Ibn Sina's corpus.

Afghanistan·Medicine · History