By the age of ten, he had completed A brief account of his achievements has been given in this article. In medicine, his encyclpedic book, al-Qanun (The Canon) - Al Qanun Fi Al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine)- was translated into Latin towards the end of the twelfth century CE, and became a reference source for medical studies in the universities of Europe until the end of the seventeenth century.
Another English translation of book I of the Canon was published in Pakistan by M.