Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, a Persian physician who directed hospitals in Rayy and Baghdad. He wrote the first clear account of smallpox and measles, and a vast medical notebook known in Latin as the Continens.

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  1. Cochia pills, plate: Scammony
    Cochia pillsA standard purgative pill of aloes, scammony, and colocynth, given in the old pharmacopoei

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