AVENZOAR or ABUMERON (Abu Merwan `Abdal-Malik ibn Zuhr) (d. I162), Arabian physician, was born at Seville, where he exercised his profession with great reputation. He was a con temporary of Averroes, who, according to Leo Africanus, heard his lectures, and learned physic of him. He belonged, in many re spects, to the Dogmatists or Rational School, rather than to the Empirics. He was a great admirer of Galen; and in his writings, he protests emphatically against quackery and the superstitious remedies of the astrologers. His Teisir (Rectification of Health) was translated into Hebrew (128o) and thence into Latin by Paravicius (Venice, 149o).