biography
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Rhazes or Razi
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in full Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi
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pronunciation:
[rayzeez, rayzee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (10th-c)
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| biography:
| Physician and alchemist, who lived in Baghdad. Considered the greatest physician of the Arab world, he gave full accounts of smallpox and measles, and wrote an immense Graeco-Arabic encyclopedia. This was translated into Latin, and had considerable influence on medical science in the Middle Ages. |
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