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Ages 7–9Ibn al-Nafis trained at the Nuri Hospital in Damascus.
He later worked at the Nasiri Hospital in Cairo and wrote about medicine.
Ibn al-Nafis described the pulmonary circulation: blood traveling from the heart through the lungs and back to the heart.
He rejected Galen’s idea that blood passed directly through invisible pores between the heart’s chambers.
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How can a diagram make a journey that we cannot see easier to understand?
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