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Jaldaki, physician
Izz al-Din Aydamir al-Jaldaki (عز الدين علي بن محمد أيدمر بن علي الجلدكي), also written al-Jildaki, was a 14th century Persian physician and alchemist from Khorasan.
Al-Jaldaki was one of the last and one of the greatest of medieval Islamic alchemists.
He was born in Jaldak, a district of Khorasan about 15 kilometers from Mashhad in Iran.
In his writings he reveals that he spent seventeen years travelling through Iraq, Asia Minor, Yemen, North Africa, and Syria, finally settling in Egypt where he composed many of his treatises.
He was a prolific author of alchemical writings, of which the National Library of Medicine has three. His treatises, which reflect interests much broader than simply alchemy, preserve extensive quotations from earlier authors.
He died in 1342.
Source: wikipedia.org
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