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- ↑ Ahmad Ibn al-Hajj, Ad-Dur al-Muntakhab al-Mustahsan fi Ba'd Ma'athir Amir al-Mu'minin Mawlana al-Hasan, Rabat, Bibliothèque Royale
- ↑ H.P.J. Renaud, "Discours au Vème congrès de l'histoire de médecine", Genève, 1926, p. 8, see also, by the same author "État de nos connaissances sur la médecine Ancienne au Maroc", in Bulletin de L'Institut des Hautes Etudes Marocaines, 1920
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