This is from Michael A. Flannery, Associate Director for Historical Collections of University of Alabama at Birmingham
.. Indeed, pharmacy can trace much of its historical foundations to the singular achievements of this ninth-century Persian scholar (Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi)
uab.edu/reynolds/rhazes_pharm.htm
Such a towering figure who is credited for the very foundation of pharmacy doesnt have a single reference in our school text books.All the modern chemical processes such as crystallation,distilliataion etc are due to him.
what do you want to call his ommission a bias or a a mistake?
