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Which parasite did Avicenna describe in his medical writings?
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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.
In his medical writings, the Persian physician and philosopher Avicenna provided the first clinical account of the guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) and its treatment.12