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Abu ul-Ala Shirazi
Died1001
NationalityPersia
Known fortreatment of malaria
Scientific career
Fieldsmedicine

Abu ul-Ala Shirazi (died 1001) lived around the 10th century at the court of the Buyid emir 'Adud al-Dawla. He found that arsenic could cure malaria.

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