The Persian physician Agha Bakr Muhammad ibn …
Years: 892 - 903
The Persian physician Agha Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi makes use of opium in anesthesia and recommends its use for the treatment of melancholy in Man la Yahduruhu Al-Tabib, a home medical manual directed toward ordinary citizens for self-treatment if a doctor is not available.
Agha Bakr Muhammad (845-930), who was born near Tehran, maintains a laboratory and school in Baghdad, and is a student and critic of Galen.
