[The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].

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Canon. Arabic. 1593

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Romae : In typographia Medicea, 1593.

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3 parts ; (folio)

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The first printed Arabic edition of the Qānūn in the West
Translation of t.-p. (from 20th cent. ms. notes laid-in): Books of medical practice, with some writings relating to the science of logic, nature and rhetoric.
Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.

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