Medical literature
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Medical literature is the scientific literature of medicine: articles in journals and texts in books devoted to the field of medicine. Many references to the medical literature include the health care
Plates vi & vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus at the Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine
Statuette of Imhotep in the Louvre
The Canon of Medicine
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The Canon of Medicine is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Ibn Sina and completed in 1025. It is among the most influential works of its time. It presents an overview of the contem
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…Huangdi Neijing), Rome (De Medicina), and Greece (De Materia Medica). Important medical works in the medieval Islamic era include texts from Persia (The Canon of Medicine of Ibn Sina), Spain (Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi's Kitab al-Tasrif), Iraq (De Gradibus), and Syria (Ibn al-Nafis' Comprehensive Book on Medicine), while…
Persian version of The Canon of Medicine at Avicenna's mausoleum in Hamedan
First page of the introduction to the first book (Arabic manuscript, 1597)
A Latin copy of the Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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