Islamic Medicine

Question 1

Johannitius

Answer 1

• Bayt al Hikmah (House of Wisdom, Baghdad)
• “The Skheikh of Translators”
• Liber Ysagogarum (Medical Questions), incorporated into the Articella
• Arab Christian, theologian

Question 2

Rhazes

Answer 2

• Highly respected physician
• > 200 papers and treatises
• First to differentiate kinds of fever
• First to describe differences between measles & smallpox
• Al-Mansuri, ten treatises on all aspects of medical practice

Question 3

Avicenna

Answer 3

• “The Islamic Galen”
• Completed medical studies at 18 (self-taught?)
• Wrote 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects
• First to write an entire philosophy (medical text)
• Kitab al-Qanun

Question 4

Maimonides

Answer 4

• Jewish, born in Spain
• Many writings on philosophy and theology
• Leading light in Islamic medicine

Question 5

Islamic hospitals

Answer 5

• Inspired by Christian hospitality for ill at monasteries
• Muhammed’s teachings
• Often had med schools on site
• Firs true hospital in Baghdad
• Became models for later European hospitals

Question 6

Mansuri Hospital

Answer 6

• Cairo
• Free for poor and rich alike
• Up to 4,000 pts daily
• Still in use (ophthalmology)