<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Avicenna (/ ˌævəˈsɛnə /; also Ibn Sīnā or Abu Ali Sina; Persian: ابن سینا ‎; c. 980--June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age . He has been described as the father of early modern medicine . Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine . </P> <P> His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650 . In 1973, Avicenna's Canon Of Medicine was reprinted in New York . </P>

Who is known as father of early modern medicine