At-Tabib

The journal At-Tabib was edited between 1884 and 1885 by the Lebanese linguist and journalist Ibrāhīm al-Yāziǧī as well as by Bišāra Zalzal and Ḫalīl Saʿāda. In total, they published 24 numbers in one year in Beirut, coming out every two weeks. The predecessor of At-Tabib, Ahbār Tibbiya, had already been founded in 1874 by George E. Post. Being a member of the American Mission in Beirut as well as a professor at the Medical School of the Syrian Protestant College, 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 Cairo: Al Bayan and Ad-Diya.
Al-Tabib was republished in 1895 and until 1914 by Iskandar al-Baroudi.