Masawaih al-Mardini (Yahyā ibn Masawaih al-Mardini; known asMesue the Younger) was anAssyrian physician. He was born inMardin,Upper Mesopotamia. After working inBaghdad, he entered to the service of theFatimid caliphAl-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. He died in 1015 inCairo at the age of ninety.^[1][2]

Masawaih al-Mardini was aNestorian Christian. He is known due to his books on purgatives and emetics (De medicins laxativis) and on the completepharmacopoeia in 12 parts called theAntidotarium sive Grabadin medicamentorum, which remained for centuries the standard textbook of pharmacy in the West.^[1][2]

He also described methods of distillation of empyreumatic oils. A method of extracting oil from "some kind of bituminous shale", one of the first descriptions of extraction ofshale oil was described by him in the 10th century.^[2]

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