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Serapion the Younger (c. 12th century), so called to distinguish him from Serapion the Elder (Yahya ibn Sarafyun
Yahya ibn Sarafyun

Yahya ibn Sarafyun , a Syrian physician, known in Europe as Johannes Serapion, and commonly called Serapion the Elder to distinguish him from Serapion the Younger, with whom he was often confused....
), with whom he was often confused. Nothing is known about his life. He may have lived in the 12th century as Ibn Wafid (Abenguefit) quotes him.

A work by him is still extant, The Book of Simple Medicine , of which there is an Arabic manuscript in the Bodleian Library
Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest library in Europe, and in England is second in size only to the British Library....
 at Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
. It is a compendium of information on medicine in the writings of Dioscorides and Galen
Galen

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus , better known as Galen of Pergamum , was a prominent Ancient Rome physician and philosopher of Greek origin, and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period....
, with some additional remarks by himself and the older Arabic authorities; the most original part of it is the Introduction, in which he classifies substances according to their medicinal properties, and discourses on their actions.






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Serapion the Younger (c. 12th century), so called to distinguish him from Serapion the Elder (Yahya ibn Sarafyun
Yahya ibn Sarafyun

Yahya ibn Sarafyun , a Syrian physician, known in Europe as Johannes Serapion, and commonly called Serapion the Elder to distinguish him from Serapion the Younger, with whom he was often confused....
), with whom he was often confused. Nothing is known about his life. He may have lived in the 12th century as Ibn Wafid (Abenguefit) quotes him.

A work by him is still extant, The Book of Simple Medicine , of which there is an Arabic manuscript in the Bodleian Library
Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest library in Europe, and in England is second in size only to the British Library....
 at Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
. It is a compendium of information on medicine in the writings of Dioscorides and Galen
Galen

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus , better known as Galen of Pergamum , was a prominent Ancient Rome physician and philosopher of Greek origin, and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period....
, with some additional remarks by himself and the older Arabic authorities; the most original part of it is the Introduction, in which he classifies substances according to their medicinal properties, and discourses on their actions. The work was often printed together with the works of the elder Serapion, as for a long time they were supposed to been the same person.