Avicenna - Master Healer (part 5): Avicenna

Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina, known to Europe as Avicenna, was the finest physician of his age and one of the most influential minds in human history. In this fifth and final part of our series on the Prince of Physicians, we leave the philosopher behind and meet the healer, then follow him to the end of his road. The episode opens with the famous case of the lovesick prince: a young man wasting away from an illness no court doctor can name, and Ibn Sina diagnosing the truth by laying two finge...