Avicenna (Avicen`na) , an illustrious Arabian physician, surnamed the prince of physicians, a man of immense learning and extensive practice in his art; of authority in philosophy as well as in medicine, his philosophy being of the school of Aristotle with a mixture of Neoplatonism, his “Canon of Medicine,” being the supreme in medical science for centuries (980‒1037).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aveyron` * Avie`nus, Rufus Festus