Avicenna

**Avicenna **


Avicenna, or Ibn Sina, was a well-known physician who prevented and cured disease in the Middle East and Europe during Medieval Times. Avicenna created one of the biggest impacts on peoples' lives in his day because there were not many or any local doctors around his time. He healed, cured, and prevented the disease for a lot of people from 1000 A.D to 1500 A.D. He was known as 'The Supreme Master' and was also a well-known Islamic philosopher. Avicenna showed great intelligence and learned virtually without tutoring in math, physics, medicine, and philosophy. One of Avicenna's famous works was the __Cannon of Medicine__, a reliable source for medical information for the people in the middle ages.

Avicenna recognized the interaction between psychology and health, and he was also very interested in child health. He traveled a lot from place to place and soon became known as one of the most important doctors in his time. He made great contributions to the advancement of medicine at the Isfahan School of Medicine. Avicenna had 276 works in all ranging from massive encyclopedias to short essays. He also was an accomplished poet in both Arabic and Persian, he taught in a local school, and was well versed in Islamic law since the age of ten. Avicenna could explain all of the different parts of the eye and he could describe the main valves in the body. Avicenna was a very intelligent doctor who changed peoples' lives all around the world.

Works Cited
 * “Avicenna (Abu Ali al-Hussain ibn Abdullah ibn-Sina).” World of Anatomy and Physiology. N.p.: Thomson Gale, 2006. N. pag. Biography Resource Center. Web. 25 Mar. 2010.
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 * “Ibn Sina.” The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. William Chester Jordan. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 234-235. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 12 Mar. 2010.