Avicenna also had written on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics and poetry. His Book of “The Canon of Medicine” was reprinted in New York in 1973 that shows his works and theories are still alive and in use. He is known as the father of early modern medicine and his most famous work in Medicine called “The Book of Healing”, which became a standard medical textbook at many European universities and remained in use up to the recent centuries.
“Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body, in health, when not in health, the mean by which health is likely to be lost, and when lost, is likely to be restored to health.”Īvicenna was a Persian polymath and one of the most famous physicians from the Islamic Golden Age.
