islamic medicine

Question 1

The earliest written medicinal recipes

Answer 1

written on sumerian clay tablets from the Mesopotamia region, the oldest of which date from about 4200 years ago
these ancient tablets refer to similar works dating to 5500 years ago, indicating a very long history of medicinal plant use, the sumerian tablets reveal an objective pharmacology based on the utilization of numerous medicinal plant preparations

Question 2

when did islamic medicine begin

Answer 2

early 8th century

• the meeting of various cultures along established trade routes in the near east region provided info on herbal preparations and remedies from a number of sources
• the infusion of info from various cultural sources helped organized medical knowledge and allowed for greater objectivity in the selection and use of specific herbal treatments

Question 3

Islamic medicine evolved from various preceding cultures :

Answer 3

Mesopotamia, india, persia, egypt, greece and north africa

Question 4

hunayn ibn ishaq

Answer 4

translated the works of galen into arabic in the late 800s

Question 5

8th-11th centuries

Answer 5

• islamic medicine underwent considerable advances and soon eclipsed euro medicine
• the islamic empire extended across north africa and onto the iberian peninsula

Question 6

Ibn- al-jazzer

Answer 6

979 CE
working in tunisia, produced the kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada
-after completed Zad al-musafir wa-qut-al-hadir
-translations of these became important texts in medieval eruopre and were widely used the the salerno and montepellier med schools

Question 7

kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada

Answer 7

treatise on simple drugs

-this work was subsequently translated into latin, greek and hebrew

Question 8

kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada

Answer 8

provisions for the traveller and the nourishment of the settled
a systematic medical encyclopedia in seven volumes

Question 9

most highly regarded persian physician of this period was:

Answer 9

Ibn Sina (930-1037)

Question 10

ibn sina

Answer 10

latin name acicenna
authored over 200 treatises on various subjects mostly in the field of med
-five-volume al-qunun al-tibb is his most famous

Question 11

al qunun al-tibb

Answer 11

canon of med
-a monumental treatise on med and medicinal plants. this work was influences by greek and roman med traditions but also contained new info from both islamic and indian sources
by 15000 there were twenty one edition throughout europe