Hektoen International

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  • Ibn Sīnā cures a prince who thinks he is a cow

    Alan WeberDoha, Qatar Sifting through literature we recover strange grains of medical truth.  The twelfth century poet Nizámí-i-‘Arúdí relates the following story about the celebrated physician Ibn Sīnā or Avicenna (AD 980–1037): One of the princes of the House of Búya was attacked by melancholy, and was in such wise affected by the disease that…