Islam and Mediaeval Medicine

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Created on: 12-04-24 11:26

Islamic Ideas

• The Qur’an tells Muslims they have a duty to care for people who are sick.
• Muslims also have a duty to give money to charity. In medieval times, some of this money was used to pay for hospitals to be built.

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Islamic Ideas contd.

Their faith also encouraged Muslim doctors to develop new ideas and treatments. This means that Islamic medicine at this time is seen as having been more advanced than medicine in England. This was partly because in England, the
Catholic Church limited h

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Al-Razi

• Helped to plan the building of a hospital in Baghdad (modern-day Iraq). Frst hospital in the world, opened in AD805.
• Hung meat in different parts of the city and the hospital was built in the area where the meat took the longest to rot

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• Believed in the importance of observation and seeking natural causes of illnesses (like Galen)
• First person to work out the difference between smallpox and measles.
• Wrote over 200 books, which were translated into Latin and used to teach in European

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

• Doctor and astronomer.
Wrote The Canon of Medicine, completed in 1025, which explored ideas about
anatomy and human development, and it encouraged natural treatments.
• One of the first doctors to build on Galen's ideas, not just copy them.

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Communicating ideas

As a result of the Crusades, doctors frequently travelled to the Holy Land with the Crusaders and learned new ideas from Islamic kingdoms. This is an example of war helping medical ideas to progress.

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Islamic Ideas contd.

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Al-Razi

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Al-Razi contd.

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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