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Ibn al-Nafis trained at the Nuri Hospital in Damascus.
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Ibn 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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“…al-Haytham, who lived from 965 In the 1200s, Ibn al-Nafis wrote that blood circulates from the heart to the lungs where it absorbs oxygen and then back to the heart and the rest…”
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“…por es as Gal en thou ght ." IBN AL-NAFIS, MUSLIM SCHOLAR thought. The blood from the right chamber must flow through the pulmonary artery to the lungs, spread through its substance, be…”
Text around a matching name in the supplied edition. Extraction may retain spelling or spacing errors.“…Concise Book of Medicine, written in Syria by Ibn al-Nafis, who died in 1288. The Canon was made up of hve books. The first was concerned with general medical principles; the second with…”
Text around a matching name in the supplied edition. Extraction may retain spelling or spacing errors.“…Las tly, we look at the work of Ibn al-Nafis, a Syrian physician who died in 1288. He has left us The Complete Book on Medicin e, which was compiled in 80 volumes.…”
Text around a matching name in the supplied edition. Extraction may retain spelling or spacing errors.“…author of the Kitab al-Fihrist; bookseller and calligrapher. Ibn al-Nafis, Abu-Alhassan Alauldin Ali ibn Abi Hazm al-Qurashi (1210-1288); Damascus, Syria, and flourished and worked in Cairo, Egypt; physician and discoverer of the circulation…”
Text around a matching name in the supplied edition. Extraction may retain spelling or spacing errors.Description of pulmonary circulation and extensive medical, anatomical, and legal writing.
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