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A more complete list, with the titles of the books, may be found in Haller's "Bibliotheca Anatomica." Another of the distinguished Arabian physicians was Avenzoar the transformation of his Arabic family name, Ibn-Zohr. He was probably born in Penaflor, not far from Seville. He died in Seville in 1162 at the age, it is said, of ninety-two years.
Being got out of town in the road to Penaflor, master of my own action, and forty good ducats; the first thing I did was to give my mule her head, and to go at what pace she pleased. ............. I left them in the inn, and continued my journey; I was hardly got half-a-mile farther, when I met a cavalier very genteel, Gil Blas.
He was mounted on a most sorry-looking hired mule, which, I expected would be unable to keep pace with the spirited horses of myself and man, for he seemed to be twin brother of the mule of Gil Perez, on which his nephew made his celebrated journey from Oviedo to Penaflor. I was, however, very much mistaken.
Being got out of town in the road to Penaflor, master of my own action, and forty good ducats; the first thing I did was to give my mule her head, and to go at what pace she pleased. . . . . . . . . . . . . . I left them in the inn, and continued my journey; I was hardly got half-a-mile farther, when I met a cavalier very genteel, Gil Blas.
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