Abu ul-Ala Shirazi

Abu ul-Ala Shirazi
Died	1001
Nationality	Persia
Known for	treatment of malaria
Scientific career
Fields	medicine

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.

References

• Mahmoudian, Masoud; Rahimi-Moghaddam Parvaneh (November 2008). "The life and work of Abu ul-Ala Shirazi (d. 1001): a Persian pioneer in the treatment of malaria, in the style of Rhazes (865-925)". Journal of Medical Biography . 16 (4). England: 186–7. doi:10.1258/jmb.2007.007054. ISSN   0967-7720. PMID   18952984. S2CID   29266993.