Al-masihi

Abu Sahl Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani (ابو سهل عيسى بن يحيى المسيحي الگرگاني) was a Christian physician, from Gorgan, east of the Caspian Sea, in Iran.

He was the teacher of Avicenna. He wrote an encyclopedic treatise on medicine of one hundred chapters (al-mā\'a fi-l-sanā\'a al-tabi\'iyyah; Arabic: المائة في الصناعة الطبيعية), which is one of the earliest Arabic works of its kind and may have been in some respects the model of Avicenna\'s Qanun.

He wrote other treatises on measles, on the plague, on the pulse, etc.

He died at the age of forty in a dust storm in the deserts of Khwarezmia in 999-1000CE.

Sources

• Carl Brockelmann: Arabische Litteratur (vol. 1, 138, 1898).
• G. Karmi, A mediaeval compendium of Arabic medicine: Abu Sahl al-Masihi\'s "Book of the Hundred.", J. Hist. Arabic Sci. vol. 2(2) 270-90 (1978).

See also

• List of Iranian scientists

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