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What wound dressing did Avicenna recommend that was widely used in medieval Europe?
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Avicenna
The title page of the 1556 edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb). This edition (sometimes called the 1556 Basel edition) was translated by medieval scholar Gerard of Cremona.
Avicenna recommended the use of wine as a wound dressing, a practice that was widely employed by physicians in medieval Europe.1