Ibn Sīnā, a Persian philosopher and physician. His Canon of Medicine, a systematic summa of Galenic medicine with the Arabic pharmacy, was the chief medical textbook of European universities into the seventeenth century.

2 Entries in the Materia Medica

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  1. CamphorThe crystalline gum of Cinnamomum camphora.
  2. Rose (Rosa gallica), plate: Rose
    RoseChiefly the red or apothecary’s rose, Rosa gallica, and the damask rose, Rosa × damascena,

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