<P> The al - Kitab al - Mansuri (الكتاب المنصوري في الطب, Latinized: Liber almansoris, Liber medicinalis ad Almansorem) was dedicated to "the Samanid prince Abu Salih al - Mansur ibn Ishaq, governor of Rayy ." The book contains a comprehensive encyclopedia of medicine in ten sections . The first six sections are dedicated to medical theory, and deal with anatomy, physiology and pathology, materia medica, health issues, dietetics, and cosmetics . The remaining four parts describe surgery, toxicology, and fever . The ninth section, a detailed discussion of medical pathologies arranged by body parts, circulated in autonomous Latin translations as the Liber Nonus . </P> <P>' Ali ibn al -' Abbas al - Majusi comments on the al - Mansuri in his book Kamil as - sina'a: </P> <P> In his book entitled "Kitab al - Mansuri", al - Razi summarizes everything which concerns the art of medicine, and does never neglect any issue which he mentions . However, everything is much abbreviated, according to the goal he has set himself . </P> <P> The book was first translated into Latin in 1175 by Gerard of Cremona . Under various titles ("Liber (medicinalis) ad Almansorem"; "Almansorius"; "Liber ad Almansorem"; "Liber nonus") it was printed in Venice in 1490, 1493, and 1497 . Amongst the many European commentators on the Liber nonus, Andreas Vesalius paraphrased al - Razis work in his "Paraphrases in nonum librum Rhazae", which was first published in Louvain, 1537 . </P>

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