Ebn Masouyeh was an Iranian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur.
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Early life
According to The Canon of Medicine for Avicenna and 'Uyun al-Anba' for the medieval Arabic historian Ebn Abi Usaybia, Masouyeh's father was Assyrian and his mother was Slavic.
Ebn E-Masouyeh was born in 777 CE and was the son of a physician from Gundishapur who came to Baghdad and studied under the name Jabril Ebn Bukhtishu. For most of his life, he wrote books in Syriac and Arabic.
Career
Masouyeh became personal physician to four caliphs. He composed a considerable number of Arabic medical monographs on topics including fevers, leprosy, melancholy, dietetics, eye diseases and medical aphorisms. He became a director of a hospital in Baghdad.
Treatises
He composed medical treatises on topics including ophthalmology, fevers, headache, melancholia, dietetics, the testing of physicians and medical aphorisms.
Many anatomical and medical writings are credited to him, notably the "Disorder of the Eye" (Daghal al-'ain), the earliest Systematic treatise on ophthalmology extant in Arabic and the Aphorisms, the Latin translation of which was widely read in the Middle Ages.
Masouyeh regularly held an assembly where he consulted with patients and discussed subjects with students. He apparently attracted considerable audiences and developed a reputation for repartee.
He was the teacher of Hunain Ebn Ishaq. He translated various Greek medical works into Syriac. Apes were supplied to him by the caliph al-Mu'tasim for dissection.
Death
Ebn E-Masouyeh died in Samarra in 857 CE.