Codex ChronicaEst. MMXXVI
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Codex Chronica — An Illustrated History of Medicine

An Illustrated History of Medicine17 epochs / 36 plates
Bukhara · Baghdad
A.D. 1025

The Golden Age of Islam

Avicenna codifies the whole of medicine.

Epoch III2 plates
Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, c. 980–1037), the philosopher-physician of Bukhārā whose Canon of Medicine ordered the whole art into five books and ruled the lecterns of Europe for six centuries. No likeness survives from life; this is a later imagined portrait. Portrait of Avicenna / Wellcome Collection - CC BY 4.0.
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