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Islamic Medicine Flashcards

1
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When was the Islamic Empire prominent?

A

8th and 9th centuries

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2
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What was the Islamic Empire more advanced in?

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Science

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3
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What books were preserved?

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Ones from Ancient Greece and Roman scholars like Hippocrates and Galen

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4
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Who did the Islamic Empire value?

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Hippocrates and Galen

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5
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Why was Islam disposed to furthering scientific discovery?

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Muhammad said “for every disease, Allah has given a cure” which meant that doctors were inspired to find the cures because the Quran supported it

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6
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What new drugs were discovered by Muslim scientists?

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Senna and naphtha

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7
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How were people with mental illnesses treated?

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With compassion

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8
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What were Muslim hospitals called?

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Bimaristans

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9
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How were Muslim hospitals different to Christian ones?

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They actually treated the patients not just cared for them

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10
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How were patients with contagious diseases isolated?

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In units

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11
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What did doctors perform on the dead?

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Post-Mortems

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12
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When did Islamic medical discoveries and the old medical knowledge of the Ancient Greeks arrive in Italy?

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1065

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13
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How did Islamic and Ancient Greek medical knowledge reach Italy?

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A merchant called Constantine the African had translated them into Latin

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14
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What universities in Italy soon became the best places to study medicine in medieval Europe?

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Padua and Bologna

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15
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How did the medical ideas of Islam and Ancient Greeks reach England?

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Trade as merchants brought new equipment, drugs and books

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16
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What did Rhazes distinguish for the first time?

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Measles from smallpox

17
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How many textbooks did Rhazes write?

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200

18
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Who did Rhazes follow but was critical of?

A

Galen

19
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What book did Rhazes write that doubted Galen?

A

Doubts about Galen

20
Q

What was the Cannon of Medicine?

A

An encyclopaedia of Ancient Greek and Islamic medicine

21
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Who wrote the Cannon of Medicine and when?

A

Avicenna in the 10th century

22
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How many drugs did the Cannon of Medicine list the properties of?

A

760

23
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Examples of 2 drugs listed in Cannon of Medicine

A

Camphor and laudanum

24
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What other health problems did Cannon of Medicine discuss? (Weight)

A

Anorexia and obesity

25
Q

Until when was Canon of Medicine vital in Western Europe? Why was this?

A

17th century

Translated into Latin

26
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When did Ibn al-Nafis claim Galen was wrong?

A

13th century

27
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Why did Ibn al-Nadir claim Galen was wrong?

A

Due to his belief that blood was produced in the liver

Al-Nafis thought, correctly that blood passed through the heart via the lungs

28
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Why couldn’t Ibn al-Nafis prove his theory that blood passed through the heart via the lungs?

A

Islam banned human dissection

29
Q

Due to the acceptance that blood was produced in the liver, until when were Galen’s mistakes believed until?

A

17th century

30
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What did Abulcasis write a detailed book on?

A

Amputations, stitching wounds, fractures and dental surgery

31
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What new procedure did Abulvasis invent?

A

Ligatures

32
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What did Abulcasis write?

A

Al Tasrif

33
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When was Al Tasrif written?

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11th century

34
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What was Al Tasrif a book on? How many volumes did it have?

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A 30 volume book on medicine

35
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How many surgical instruments did Abulcasis invent?

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26

36
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What did Abulcasis popularise?

A

Cauterisation

37
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What did alchemists use to make drugs and anaesthetics?

A

Distillation

38
Q

What did alchemy try to turn metals into?

A

Gold

39
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What did alchemy try to find?

A

A substance that gave eternal life

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