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Text from Questions on fever, quoting Avicenna and Galen

A later medical manuscript page that quotes both Avicenna and the ancient physician Galen on the subject of fever.

Shows later physicians quoting Avicenna's medical authority alongside Galen's.

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Black-and-white scan of a handwritten manuscript page, folio 8, in Hebrew script with dark ink on aged, browned paper with torn and stained edges. Dense lines of cursive text fill the page. — Text from Questions on fever, quoting Avicenna and Galen, folio 8 recto, Asian Collection.

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What it is

This is a handwritten manuscript page, written in Hebrew script, from a text on fevers that quotes passages from Avicenna alongside the ancient Greek physician Galen. It is held as part of an Asian Collection and catalogued under medical history.

Why it matters

The manuscript shows how, long after his death, Avicenna's medical writings were studied together with the much older works of Galen. Pairing the two authors in clinical teaching reveals how Avicenna's ideas were treated as equal in authority to classical Greek medicine within later medical traditions.

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