Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon

شرح تشريح القانون

Ibn al-Nafis described blood passing from the right ventricle (the right side of the heart) to the left through the lungs, three centuries before the Spanish physician Servetus; whether Europe knew his text remains debated.

Author: Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288)
Field: Medicine
Arabic title: شرحُ تشريح القانون
Latin title: None in the Middle Ages (only his commentary on the Canon's compound remedies was translated, by Andrea Alpago, printed 1547)

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