Tawfiq Canaan

Tawfiq Canaan was born in 1882 in Beit Jala, studied medicine in Beirut and opened a practice in Jerusalem in 1912. A military doctor during the First World War, he directed the Jerusalem leprosarium, published on malaria and tuberculosis, and in 1944 presided over the Palestine Arab Medical Association. He gathered more than one thousand three hundred amulets. In 1948 his house, his clinic and his manuscripts were destroyed; he then directed a hospital on the Mount of Olives and died in Jerusalem in 1964.

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