Avenzoar

Avenzoar (properly Ibn Zohr), ABU MERWAN, an Arabian physician, born in Spain about 1072, died in 1162. He was the teacher of Averrhoes (q.v.), who speaks highly of his wisdom. One of his works was translated into Hebrew in 1280, and from thence into Latin, and was published, under the title Rectificatio Medicationis et Regiminis, at Venice, in 1490. It has since passed through numerous editions (as at Lyons, 1851).