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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Spanish-Arab physician who took an observational and experimental approach to disease and wrote several books, including Practical Manual of Treatments and Diet.
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[2925] Avenzoar magnifies the juice of a pomegranate, if it be sweet, and especially rose water, which he would have to be used in every dish, which they put in practice in those hot countries, about Damascus, where (if we may believe the relations of Vertomannus) many hogsheads of rose water are to be sold in the market at once, it is in so great request with them.
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Mercurialis out of Avenzoar, admit peaches, [2922] pears, and apples baked after meals, only corrected with sugar, and aniseed, or fennel-seed, and so they may be profitably taken, because they strengthen the stomach, and keep down vapours.
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The work has been variously appreciated in subsequent ages, some regarding it as a treasury of wisdom, and others, like Avenzoar, holding it useful only as waste paper.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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His ancestors had been celebrated as physicians for several generations, and his son was afterwards held by the Arabians to be even more eminent in his profession than Avenzoar himself.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Avenzoar (Ibn-Zuhr), the greatest of Moslem physicians, was his friend.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Albucasis, and Averroes (Avenzoar is indeed claimed to be a Jew).
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The most famous of the professors were Averroës, Albucasis and Avenzoar.
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Abd el-Malik Ibn Zohr (Avenzoar, 1113-62) from the neighbourhood of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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A century after Albucasis came the great physician Avenzoar (1113-1196), with whom he divides about equally the medical honors of the western caliphate.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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The illustrious pupil of Avenzoar, Averrhoës, who died in 1198 A.D., was the last of the great Arabian physicians who, by rational conception of medicine, attempted to stem the flood of superstition that was overwhelming medicine.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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