islam Flashcards
progress: what did muslims believe was important?
- learning, translated and built upon Greek + Roman medical texts
- understood importance of hygiene
- set up hospitals
progress: did they use observation?
used clinical observation
what limited progress?
- islam did not permit the dissection of human bodies
- appealing to muslim god Allah was encouraged to cure disease
what was the main difference between muslims and christians?
- islam = religious book the Hadith taught to use medicine
- christian = would teach prayer and repentance
how did medical progress spread?
Crusades
what did they invent?
distillation to make and prepare anaesthetic
three famous arab doctors?
avicenna, rhazes, ibn al-nafis
what could you do with a medical license ?
- doctors could open a practice anywhere
- many called themselves healers without license but Muslims did not stop them
what was important to islam
- charity and hospitals set up for the sick
- 1283 AD one hospital in Cairo gave out patients money , rest before returning to work
what did they develop, improved surgery?
highly successful anaesthetic, surgery much more painless
why were setting up hospitals significant?
set up in towns + cities to cure patients and train new doctors by awarding a medical license
what was so important about hygiene?
believed in excellent hygiene, good hygiene = healthy body
who was rhazes?
arab doctor worked as head doctor at the hospital in Baghdad
why was rhazes significant?
- wrote a book “el hawi” covered both arabic and greek medicine
- about 200 medical works in total (made many discoveries, mixture both cultures, ideas + difference between small pox + measles + wrote the first description of smallpox symptoms )
what was rhazes the first to notice?
- fever was the body’s natural impulse to heal itself
- first to consider allergies and to diagnose hay fever
