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Gorgani, Rustam, physician

Rustam Jurjani was a mid-16th century Persian physician who lived in India.

Rustam Jurjani was court physician of Khan Ahmad Jilan and the Sultan Nizam-Shah Burhan I (ruled 1508-1553) in the city of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan, India. His name indicates he was from Gorgan, Golestan, Iran.

He composed several medical treatises in Persian, the most extensive being his encyclopaedia of material medica which he compiled at the request of Sultan Nizam-Shah and named after him.

Of the latter The National Library of Medicine has one of only two recorded copies.

Source: wikipedia.org


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