医学百科 The Medicine Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
At the age of 18, he successfully treated Nur ibn Mansur, the Samanid Sultan of Bukhara, which gained him a position at court and access to the extensive royal library.
Their inspiration was Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna in the West, a preeminent 10th-century polymath from Bukhara known as the father of modern medicine because he recognised the link between mind and body.