Al-Hawi
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For the Copto-Arabic work of the same name, see al-Makīn Jirjis ibn al-ʿAmīd the Younger. For the Ethiopic work called Maṣḥafa Ḥāwi, see Nikon of the Black Mountain.
Al-Hawi or Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb translated as The Comprehensive Book on Medicine is a medical composition authored by Rhazes in the 10th century.
It was first translated into Latin in 1279 under the title Continens by Faraj ben Salīm, a physician of Sicilian-Jewish origin employed by Charles of Anjou.[1]
The oldest partial remaining copy of this work belongs to the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland dated 1094 CE.[2]