Al-Razi (Rhazes)
854 – 925 · Iran · Medicine, Chemistry
Distinguished smallpox from measles and pioneered clinical case records.
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- Galen of Pergamon
129 – 216 · Medicine, Philosophy
Al-Razi's Doubts about Galen is the first systematic clinical critique of the Galenic corpus.
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Zhang Zhongjing
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