Avicenna's Canon of Medicine

Timeline

1. c. 1005–1010Bukhara · TransoxianaIn the late Samanid period, Avicenna practiced medicine and wrote in Bukhara and elsewhere, integrating the medicine of Galen, Hippocrates, and earlier Islamic scholars, and began drafting the early volumes of the Canon of Medicine, establishing a systematic medical framework centered on the four humors, organ functions, and drug classification.
2. c. 1010–1025Isfahan · PersiaThe five volumes of the Canon of Medicine were completed successively, covering medical principles, simple drugs, disease classification, diseases of individual organs, and compound drugs; it became the most authoritative medical encyclopedia in the Islamic world and quickly spread to Syria, Egypt, and even Latin Europe.