August 23 has been designated as Physician Day in Iran to mark the birth anniversary of the great Iranian scientist Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna).
This designation is part of the efforts to celebrate and recognize the importance and skills of the career.
Abu Ali Sina (980-1037) was a Iranian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time.
He was born around 980 in Afshana, near Bukhara, which was his mother's hometown, in Greater Khorasan.
His father, Abdullah, was at the time of his son's birth the governor in one of the Samanid Nuh ibn Mansur's estates.
He had his son very carefully educated at Bukhara. His independent thought was served by an extraordinary intelligence and memory, which allowed him to overtake his teachers at the age of fourteen. As he said in his autobiography, there was nothing that he had not learned when he reached eighteen.
He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, Islamic theologian, logician, mathematician, physicist, poet and scientist.
He studied medicine under a physician named Koushyar. He wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.
His most famous works are ‘Shafa’ (healing), a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and ‘Qanoon’ (the canon of medicine) which was a standard medical text at many medieval universities.
‘Qanoon’ was used as a textbook in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650.
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