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  • A Turkish physician who was sent as an ambassador from Toharistan (Tokharistan) to China as an ambassador in 730 CE. He brought with him medicines that were unknown to China at the time. Aydin M. Sayili, Turkish Medicine, Isis, vol. 26, no. 2 (March 1937), pp. 403-414, at p. 406.