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• AVENZOAR, or ABUMERON [Abu Merwan 'Abdal-Malik ibn Zuhr]

AVENZOAR, or ABUMERON [See also:

• ABU

Abu Merwan 'Abdal-Malik See also:

• IBN

ibn Zuhr]  , Arabian physician, who flourished at the beginning of the 12th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• SEVILLE
• SEVILLE (Span. Sevilla, Lat. Ispalis or Hispalis, Moorish Ishbiliya)

Seville, where he exercised his profession with See also:

• GREAT

great reputation . 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 See also:

• AVENZOAR, or ABUMERON [Abu Merwan 'Abdal-Malik ibn Zuhr]

Avenzoar himself . He was a contemporary of See also:

• AVERROES [Abul - Walid Muhammad ibn - Ahmad Ibn-Muhammad ibn-Rushd] (1126-1198)

Averroes, who, according to See also:

• LEO
• LEO (THE LION)
• LEO, BROTHER (d. c. 1270)
• LEO, HEINRICH (1799-1878)
• LEO, JOHANNES (c. 1494-1552)
• LEO, LEONARDO (1694–1744)

Leo See also:

• AFRICANUS, SEXTUS JULIUS

Africanus, heard his lectures, and learned physic of him . He belonged, in many respects, to the Dogmatists or Rational School, rather than to the Empirics . He was a great admirer of See also:

• GALEN (or GALENUS), CLAUDIUS
• GALEN, CHRISTOPH BERNHARD, FREIHERR VON (16o6-1678)

Galen; and in his writings he protests emphatically against quackery and the superstitious remedies of the astrologers . He shows no inconsiderable knowledge of See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy in his remarkable description of inflammation and See also:

• ABSCESS (from Lat. abscedere, to separate)

abscess of the mediastinum in his own See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, and its diagnosis from See also:

• COMMON

common pleuritis as well as from abscess and See also:

• DROPSY (contracted from the old word hydropisy, derived from the Gr. 154w¢; i Swp, water, and appearance)

dropsy of the pericardium . In cases of obstruction or of palsy of the gullet, his three modes of treatment are ingenious . He proposes to support the strength by placing the patient in a tepid See also:

• BATH
• BATH, THOMAS THYNNE
• BATH, WILLIAM

bath of nutritious liquids, that might enter by cutaneous imbibition, but does not recommend this . He speaks more favourably of the introduction of See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food into the See also:

• STOMACH (Gr. vrbsaxos from arbga, a mouth)

stomach by a See also:

• SILVER

silver See also:

• TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube; and he strongly recommends the use of nutritive enemata . From his writings it would appear that the offices of physician, surgeon and See also:

• APOTHECARY (from the Lat. apothecarius, a keeper of an apotheca, Gr. aroth is , a store)

apothecary were already considered as distinct professions . He wrote a See also:

• BOOK

book entitled The Method of Preparing Medicines and See also:

• DIET

Diet, which was translated into See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew in the See also:

• YEAR

year 128o, and thence into Latin by Paravicius, whose version, first printed at See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, 1490, has passed through several See also:

• EDITIONS

editions .