Sābūr ibn Sahl was a 9th-century Persian

Persian people

The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...

 Christian

Christian

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 physician from the Academy of Gundishapur

Academy of Gundishapur

The Academy of Gondishapur , also Jondishapur , was a renowned academy of learning in the city of Gundeshapur during late antiquity, the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire. It offered training in medicine, philosophy, theology and science. The faculty were versed in the Zoroastrian and...

.

Among other medical works, he wrote one of the first medical books on antidote

Antidote

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s called Aqrabadhin, which was divided into 22 volumes, and which was possibly the earliest of its kind to influence Muslim medicine. This antidotary enjoyed much popularity until it was superseded Ibn al-Tilmidh

Ibn al-Tilmīdh

Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʻid Ibn al-Tilmīdh was a Syriac Christian physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic civilization....

's version later in the first half of twelfth century.

See also

• List of Iranian scientists