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Ebn E-Masouyeh was born in 777 CE, and was the son of a pharmacist and physician from Gundishapur who came to Baghdad and studied under the name Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. In most of his life, he wrote books in Syriac and Arabic. |
Ebn E-Masouyeh was born in 777 CE, and was the son of a [[pharmacist]] and [[physician]] from Gundishapur who came to Baghdad and studied under the name Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. In most of his life, he wrote books in Syriac and Arabic. |
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Ebn Masouyeh was an Iranian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur. According to The Canon of Medicine for Avicenna and 'Uyun al-Anba for the medieval Arabic historian Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Masouyeh's father was Assyrian and his mother was Slavic.
Born
Ebn E-Masouyeh was born in 777 CE, and was the son of a pharmacist and physician from Gundishapur who came to Baghdad and studied under the name Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. In most of his life, he wrote books in Syriac and Arabic.
About Him
Masouyeh became personal physician to four caliphs. He composed a considerable number of Arabic medical monographs, on topics including fevers, leprosy, melancholy, dietetics, eye diseases, and medical aphorisms.
He became director of a hospital in Baghdad. He composed medical treatises on a number of topics, including ophthalmology, fevers, headache, melancholia, diatetics, the testing of physicians, and medical aphorisms.
Many anatomical and medical writings are credited to him, notably the "Disorder of the Eye" (Daghal al-'ain), which is the earliest Systematic treatise on ophthalmology extant in Arabic and the Aphorisms, the Latin translation of which was very popular in the Middle Ages.
It was reported that Ibn Masouyeh regularly held an assembly of some sort, where he consulted with patients and discussed subjects with pupils. Ibn Masouyeh apparently attracted considerable audiences, having acquired a reputation for repartee.
He was also the teacher of Hunain ibn Ishaq. He translated various Greek medical works into Syriac. Apes were supplied to him by the caliph al-Mu'tasim for dissection .
Death
He died in Samarra in 857 CE.
References
History Of Islamic Sciences
Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine
See Also
Cyril Elgood, A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951; reprinted Amsterdam: APA-Academic Publishers, 1979), pp. 379–82.
Cyril Elgood, Safavid Medical Practice, or The Practice of Medicine, Surgery and Gynaecology n Persia between 1500 AD and 1750 AD (London: Luzac, 1970), pp. 21–24.