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Maimonides

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Cairo, Spain

Overview

Maimonides is a medicine specialist at Fatimid Court. Based in Cairo.

Biography

Moses Maimonides was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher-physician who served as court physician to Saladin and wrote influential medical texts on asthma, poisons, and diet. His medical works combined Greek medicine with his own clinical observations.

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The life and contributions of Maimonides

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Treatise on Asthma

Wrote one of the earliest comprehensive works on asthma treatment and prevention

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Court Physician to Saladin

Served as personal physician to the Sultan of Egypt

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