Liber totius medicine necessaria.Et a stephano.ex arabica lingua in latinum.reductus. Necnon a domino michaele de capella.

Lyons, Jacobus Myt, 1523.

"The most important influence on medieval pharmacy came from the Arab world, where the classic Greek tradition was synthesized with west Asian influences. 8th and 9th century Arabic works treating drugs and their uses showed a high degree of specialization and greatly expanded the quantity of recommended drugs and their classification. General works on medicine compiled in the 10th and 11th centuries contained pharmaceutical sections which included this new material. The most important general works were those of al-Razi (Rhazes), Ali Ibn 'Abbas (Haly Abbas), Abu-l-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucassis), and Ibn Sina (Avicenna)"
(Encyclopedia of Medical History).

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