Ibn Usaibia

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Ibn Usaibia ul-Qasim ibn abi Usaibia (ابن أبي أصيبعة ) (1203-1270), Arabian physician, was born at Damascus, the son of an oculist, and studied medicine at Damascus and Cairo. In 1236 he was appointed by Saladin's physician to a new hospital in Cairo, but surrendered the appointment the following year to take up a post given him by the amir of Damascus in Salkhad near that city. There he lived and died. He wrote Uyiln ul-Anba fe Tabaqat ul-Atibba (Arabic,عيون الأنباء في طبقات الأطباء ) or Lives of the Physicians, which in its first edition (1245-1246) was dedicated to the vizier of Damascus. This he enlarged, though it is uncertain whether the new edition was made public in the lifetime of the author.

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