Ibrahim ibn Baks ( ar, إبراهيم بن بكس; died in 1003 CE) was a

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and a regular lecturer in Al-'Adudi Hospital, a bimaristan located in

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during the

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. He became blind towards the end of his life. According to Ibn Abi Usaibi'a, Ibn Baks translated many works into the Arabic-language.

Works

Among his works are a large and a small compendium of medicine and

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on diseases of the

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, of the

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, on

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and on antidotes. His works include: * كناشه كتاب الأقراباذين * مقالة في الجدري

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ibrahim ibn Baks 1003 deaths Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate 10th-century physicians Translators of the medieval Islamic world Blind academics Year of birth unknown 10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate Scholars under the Buyid dynasty