700+-+1500+AD+-+Arabic+Medicine

700 - 1500 AD - Arabic Medicine

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**Impact of medicine on society**: Whilst the Age of Islam was a time of intellectualism and scientific, social and philosophical advances, the greatest contribution to the world was Islamic medicine. The Islamic scholars gathered vast amounts of information, from around the known world, adding their own observations and developing techniques and procedures that would form the basis of modern medicine. In the history of medicine, Islamic medicine stands out as the period of greatest advance, certainly before the technology of the Twentieth Century. ======

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 * Al-Razi, known to the Europeans as Rhazes (850 – 923), was at the forefront of Islamic research into medicine
 * From the fall of Rome until the European Renaissance of the 15th century, the Islamic world was the center of medical knowledge
 * Many herbs and spices like nutmeg, cloves, and mace were not originally valued as cooking ingredients, but as medicines, and many arabic medicinal terms--drug, syrup, alcohol, alkali, etc.--remain in western languages
 * The Arabs improved many Greek and Roman medical, especially ocular, techniques.
 * Starting around 750 AD, science flourished under the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad, gradually spreading its influence as far west as Spain and eastwards into Central Asia, over a period of more than 600 years.
 * They used sponges soaked in narcotic drugs which were placed over the patient's nose as early anaesthetics
 * One of the most important medical books of its time was written by the physician Ali al-Husayn Abd Allah Ibn sinner(also known as Avicenna)
 * According to the sayings of the Prophet Muhammed, he believed that Allah had sent a cure for every ailment and that it was the duty of Muslims to take care of the body and spirit.
 * Many things which humanity is discovering everyday in all branches of science including medicine were predicted by the holy Quaran over 14 centuries ago
 * ====== The major contribution of the Islamic Age to the history of medicine was the establishment of hospitals, paid for by the charitable donations known as Zakat tax. ======

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 * Role science played**: For most of the last 5,000 years, Iraq was a key centre of scientific knowledge. Mathematics, developed initially for keeping accounts, gradually spread into far more ambitious areas such as predictive astronomy, making use of data painstakingly collected and recorded at the temples of Uruk and Babylon over several centuries.======

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 * Major medical advancements**: In the medieval Islamic world,hospitals were built in all major cities; in Cairo for example, the Qalahun hospital had a staff that included physicians, pharmacists, and nurses.One could also access a dispensary, and research facility that led to advances in understanding contagious diseases, and research into optics and the mechanisms of the eye. Muslim doctors were the first to use hollow needles to remove cataracts. [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkpVh58Pl0AH_cYevQfY96suKcJdH64cvbx4fIYhoL5CDskL3q width="93" height="92" align="center"]]

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