Islamic Medicine

Question 1

jinn/evil eye

Answer 1

illness attributed to spirits

Question 2

material medica

Answer 2

pharmacopeia of plants, herbs, minerals, animal products

Question 3

Duty of muslims

Answer 3

take care of bod and spirit (compared to Europe who only focused on spirit)

Question 4

Bayt al-Hikma

Answer 4

established in Baghdad under Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johanitius)

medical school - translated texts

Question 5

Madrases

Answer 5

development medical curricula similar to other religions

medical school

Question 6

Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (Johannitius)

Answer 6

established Bayt - al-Hikma

wrote “Medical Questions” and “Liber Ysagogarum” - incorporated into the Articella - (standard text in Euro med schools)

Question 7

Rhazes

Answer 7

director of Baghdad hospital
greatest clinician of Islamic world
Al Mansuri - ten treatises on all aspects of medical practice

Question 8

Avicenna

Answer 8

Islamic Galen
wrote 450 Treatises
Kitab al-Qanun (Canon of Medicine) - entire philosophy in Arabic
systematized Hippocrates, galen, dioscordies, and others
became authority on medicine
hypothesized microorganisms

Question 9

Maimonides

Answer 9

polymath
leading light in Islamic medicine
Described asthma, diabetes, hepatitis, pneumonia

Question 10

bismaristan

Answer 10

first true hospital
founded in Baghdad
medical schools on site