Please help me revise these wordy sentences: 1. His book Canon of Medicine was a publication that was still being consulted by doctors in the nineteenth century. 2. Modern patients today have many r

Please help me revise these wordy sentences:

1. His book Canon of Medicine was a publication that was still being consulted by doctors in the nineteenth century.

2. Modern patients today have many reasons to feel that they owe a debt of gratitude to these medieval Islamic scholars.