12th-century Persian physician
Ahmad ibn Farrukh , also written Ahmad-i Farrokh , was a 12th-century Persian physician from Herat .
He was one of the teachers of Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani .
He is author of a Persian medicine encyclopaedia titled Kifayah that is no longer extant though it had a high reputation among scholars long after al-Jurjani's day.
The National Library of Medicine has in its collection a formulary of compound remedies (Qarabadhin ).[ 1]
This formulary in 11 short chapters (babs ), and it appears to be the only preserved example of the writings of Ahmad ibn Farrukh.
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