Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik Ibn Zuhr

(1091-1162)

 

He was one of the great Andalusia physicians, the author of “al-Taisir”, a book on practical medicine with useful excerpts. He wrote clinical description of mediastinal abscess, from which he suffered personally, and left very careful record of his own symptoms.

Reference: Haddad,S.I. History of Arab Medicine,1975