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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Saudi Aramco World : Pioneer Physicians

behzad / musee d’histoire de la medicine / archives charmet / bridgeman art library.
 This modern gouache illustration depicting Ibn al-Nafis is titled “Discovery of the ‘Small Circulation’”—the movement of blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs and back to the left atrium. It was Ibn al-Nafis who first correctly described the interaction of the heart and lungs in circulation and oxygenation of blood.

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