Islamic Medicine
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- Islamic Medicine
- Rhazes
- Hung meat around Baghdad. Whichever rotted the slowest was the best place to build a hospital.
- Identified differences between Smallpox and Measles.
- Wrote 200 books about Hippocrates and his work. He also believed in observations.
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Wrote encyclopaedia of medicine called 'Canon of Medicine'
- Listed properties of 760 different drugs
- Ibn Al-Nafis
- Identified that Galen was wrong about how the Heart worked
- Suggested that blood circulated around the body
- Not many people read his works in Europe and if they did, they didn't accept it.
- Rhazes
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