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MedicineBy Colin McGruer

Doctors science in early Islamic cultureq 51

• Ibn an-nafis contradictated the theorys of galen that

“galen had written the blood was manufactured in the liver”.

• Ibn thought that the heart would pump blood to the lungs which would purify it and then the blood returns to the heart were it gets pumped throughout the body and repeats again.

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Ubn Sina as a seventeen year old boy went to native city of bukhara. The leader Ibn mansur could not cure his digestive problems Ubn fixed them and the ruler said he could have anything he wanted, he chose to be able to read in the sultan’s huge library. This is were he gained great knolege.

Doctors science in early Islamic culture p 49

• One of Ibn sina’s most famous works was a multivolume called The Canon of Medicine.

• Over a million words long summarizing the history and traditions of medical practice for more than a thousand years before his time.

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• Al-Rhazes was a very famous doctor also • He wrote some of the first accurate study of

infectious illness available in the west.• Wrote a 20 volume book that covers every

branch of medicine.• Founded a hospital in damascus

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• Islamic medicine had many other firsts including the use of tourniquets to stop arterial bleeding many of these discovered were lost and rediscovered advanced medicine far beyond any thing seen in the western world until that time.

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• The preparations available to doctors included sedatives, help people to relax they also used hashish a strong drug made from hemp as a pain killer after surgery

Hospitals science in medieval islamp 133

• Hospitals as we know them today were first developed in Islamic lands. More than a thousand years ago.

• Had highly educated intelligent staff • Were paid for by caliphs and religious

foundations.

Hospitals science in medieval islam s 134

• Hospitals were very advanced for there time design wise.

• They separated all the different type of patients surgical patients, medical patients, and contagious patients.

Hospitals Islamic culture and the medical artss N/A

• The hospital was one of the great achievements of medieval Islamic society. The relation of the design and development of Islamic hospitals was much more sophisticated than the other places at the time.

Hospitals Islamic culture and the medical artsq N/A

• The Islamic hospital served several purposes: a center of medical treatment, a convalescent home for those recovering from illness or accidents, an insane asylum, and a retirement home giving basic maintenance needs for the aged and infirm who lacked a family to care for them. It is unlikely that any truly wealthy person would have gone to a hospital for any purpose, unless they were taken ill while traveling far from home.

Hospital Islamic culture and the medical artp N/A

• An Islamic hospital was called a bimaristan, often contracted to maristan, from the Persian word bimar, `ill person', and stan, `place.‘

• Though Jewish and Christian doctors working in hospitals were not uncommon, we do not know what proportion of the patients would have been non-Muslim.

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• All patients were first examined in the external hall. And then the people that were not that sick were given medication and sent home. Those who were more serious illnesses were admitted to the hospital. They were bathed and given new clothes after they left they were given back there old clothes and some money

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• If the patient is cured, the physician is paid. If the patient dies, his parents go to the chief doctor, they present the prescriptions written by the physician if the chief doctor judges that the physician has performed badly he is killed if not he says the death was natural.

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• Moristan of cairo founded in the tenth century was the mos luxurious hospital of anchant or modern times they had colling waters ripped by the bedside of the sick and their senses were refreshed by odors of beds of flowers and they were given 5 pieces of gold to provide for strength.

Medicine medieval Islamic medicineq 1

• Medieval Islamic Medicine is organized around five topics: the emergence of medieval Islamic medicine and its intense crosspollination with other cultures; the theoretical medical framework the function of physicians within the larger society; medical care as seen through preserved case histories; and the role of magic and devout religious invocations in scholarly as well as everyday medicine. A concluding chapter on the afterlife.