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Samarqandi, Najibeddin, physician.
Najib al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar al-Samarqandi was a 13th century Persian physician from Samarkand.
Samarqandi died during the Mongol attach on Herat, in Persia, in 1222CE. He was a prolific medical writer and expositor of medical ideas, though few details are known of his life.
His most famous book was The Book of Causes and Symptoms, a comprehensive manual of therapeutics and pathology. The treatises were widely read and often commentaries were written on them.
Source: wikipedia.org
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