Avicenna’s medical Canon was being discarded as modern medicine advanced

Evidence

Although Avicenna’s Galenic medical treatise, the Canon, was still being taught in some places, elsewhere it was coming to be realized that most of this body of ‘knowledge’ would have to be discarded if medicine was to make any progress. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 228

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the larger trajectory of translating Arabic science into Europe and then outgrowing it — relevant to themes in the Orientalism literature generally.