M. Oudkerk · M. F. Reiser (Eds.)

2009

The coronary circulation was fi rst described by Ibn al Nafi s (1213–1288) in the thirteenth century. He published Kitab Mujiz – The concise book (1250) in Damascus (Syria) in which he writes the following: ”the nourishment of the heart is from the blood that goes through the vessels that permeate the body of the heart”.