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Constantine The AfricanConstantine "the African" was a translator of Greek medical texts. He was a native of Carthage, under Arab rule. As a Christian he had a good knowledge of Latin, enabling him to translate medical works from Arabic into Latin. In this way he introduced Greek medicine to Christian Europe. His translations of Hippocrates and Galen first gave the West a view of Greek medicine as a whole.
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