The journal ''At-Tabib'' (“The doctor“) was edited between 1884 and 1885 by the Lebanese linguist and journalist Ibrāhīm al-Yāziǧī (1847-1906) as well as by Bišāra Zalzal (1851-1905) and Ḫalīl Saʿāda. In total, they published 24 numbers in one year in

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, coming out every two weeks. The predecessor of ''At-Tabib'', ''Ahbār Tibbiya'' (“medical notifications”), had already been founded in 1874 by George E. Post (1838-1909). Being a member of the American Mission in Beirut as well as a professor at the Medical School of the Syrian Protestant College (nowadays the

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, AUB), post created a medical journal for the College's students. After taking over the post of editor in chief, al-Yāziǧī changed it into an encyclopedic educational publication that now bore the subtitle ''Maǧalla ṭibbīya ʿilmīya ṣināʿīya'' and was guided by the examples of '' Al-Jinan'' and '' Al-Muqtataf''. The content of its articles was medical, scientific, literary and linguistic. Even though he failed with ''At-Tabib'', it was only some years later that al-Yāziǧī published two other periodicals in

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: '' Al Bayan'' and ''

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''. Al-Tabib was republished in 1895 and until 1914 by Iskandar al-Baroudi. Al-Tabib, 1895-1914

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