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(1838-1909). Being a member of the American Mission in Beirut as well as a professor at the Medical School of the Syrian Protestant College (nowadays the

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, AUB), post created a medical journal for the College's students. After taking over the post of editor in chief, al-Yāziǧī changed it into an encyclopedic educational publication that now bore the subtitle ''Maǧalla ṭibbīya ʿilmīya ṣināʿīya'' and was guided by the examples of ''

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'' and '' Al-Muqtataf''. The content of its articles was medical, scientific, literary and linguistic. Even though he failed with ''At-Tabib'', it was only some years later that al-Yāziǧī published two other periodicals in Cairo: '' Al Bayan'' and ''

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''.

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