Ibn Zuhr

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Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Zuhr , often just Abū Marwān ibn Zuhr or Ibn Zuhr or Ibn Zohr for short (ابن زهر) called ( Arabic أبو مروان عبد الملك بن زهر, DMG Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik b. Zuhr ), Latinized Avenzoar , Abhomeron and Abumeron (* around 1092 in Peñaflor / Province of Seville in Spain, † 1161 in Seville ), was an Andalusian doctor , surgeon and teacher who wrote Arabic .

Life

Ibn Zuhr was born near Seville ( Išbīliya ) into a famous family of doctors. He was a minister under Caliph Abd al-Mu'min . His famous work Kitāb at-Taisīr fī l-mudāwāt wa-t-tadbīr (Book of Simplification / Preparation of Therapy and Dietetics) had a great influence on surgery. He improved surgical and medical knowledge by researching different diseases and their treatment. He proved that the scabies are caused by parasites ("animalcula tam parva, ut vix visu perspiciaci discerni valeant") and tried surgical procedures in animal experiments before he used them on humans. Ibn Zuhr tried out the artificial feeding by means of a gastric tube or also by means of a nutrient enema. The instrument for this was an animal bladder to which a silver tube was attached. He described Avicenna's canon of medicine in a treatise on the refutation of Abū bezeichnetAlī ibn Sinās as worthless.

Works

  • Latin translation: Liber Teisir, sive, Rectificatio medicationis et regiminis by Paravicius based on the Hebrew translation of Jacob from 1280

literature

  • Roger Arnaldez: Ibn Zuhr , in: Encyclopaedia of Islam 2. A. Vol. 3, Leiden 1969, pp. 976-979.
  • Friedrun R. Hau: Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn abī-l-Alāʼ In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1534

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Scabies (lat. Scabies). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 786 f.
  2. ↑ Cristina Álvarez Millán: Ibn Zuhr , in: Thomas F. Glick u. a. (Ed.): Medieval science, technology, and medicine: an encyclopedia , Taylor & Francis, New York 2005, pp. 259–261, here 259 ( available from Google Books ).
  3. ↑ Rabie E. Abdel-Halim (2006), "Contributions of Muhadhdhab Al-Deen Al-Baghdadi to the progress of medicine and urology", Saudi Medical Journal 27 (11): 1631-1641.
  4. ↑ Rabie E. Abdel-Halim: "Contributions of Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) to the progress of surgery: A study and translations from his book Al-Taisir", in: Saudi Medical Journal 26/9 (2005), p. 1333– 1339.
  5. ^ Heinrich Schipperges : Ibn Zuhr [di Avenzoar.] , In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century , 1st edition CH Beck Munich 1995, 2nd edition Springer Heidelberg, Berlin et.al 2001, 3rd edition Springer Heidelberg, Berlin et.al. 2006, p. 17, print and online version ( ISBN 978-3-540-29584-6 or ISBN 978-3-540-29585-3 ).
  6. ^ Gotthard Strohmaier : Avicenna. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1 , p. 126.
personal data
SURNAME Ibn Zuhr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibn Zuhr, Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik (full name); Avenzoar; Abumeron; Ibn-Zohr; أبو مروان عبد الملك بن زهر (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Arab doctor, surgeon and teacher in Al-Andalus
DATE OF BIRTH around 1092
PLACE OF BIRTH Peñaflor , Seville Province , Spain
DATE OF DEATH 1161
Place of death Seville