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Bulcasimos Albicasis, or, properly, Abul-easim, an Arabian physician, born near Cordova, died in that city about 1106. He is known only by his medical work, Al-Tasriff, the surgical part of which has been published in Arabic and Latin (2 vols. 4to, Oxford, 1778), and constitutes the most valuable authority upon the surgical science of the Arabs.
 
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