Abu ul-Ala Shirazi

Abu ul-Ala Shirazi
Died 1001
Nationality Persia
Fields medicine
Known for treatment of malaria

Abu ul-Ala Shirazi (died 1001) lived around the 10th century at the Court of Amir Azud ul-Duleh Bueieh. He found that arsenic could cure malaria.

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