Islamic Medicine + Surgery Flashcards
When was the Arabic Empire?
600-700 AD to 1258AD
What was the Islamic view on disease?
Less religious and more scientific/ logical
How did Islamic ideas come about?
Arabists copied Ancient texts into Arabic.
Physicians used these works + added their new ideas.
What was Islamic treatment like?
Herbal remedies
Less harsh surgery (few amputations unlike Romans)
Where did physicians learn?
On job in hospitals
Who were hospitals for?
Everyone Unlike England (only for poor and uncontagious)
How many hospitals in Baghdad?
100 by 1000AD
How many hospitals in total?
Every large town had one by 1100s
When and where was their first hospital?
Baghdad
805AD
Short term significance?
Lots of people helped in hospitals
Long term significance?
Kick started belief in science > religion
Many ideas lasted in books and transported worldwide, e.g. Crusades
Main 2 differences from European medicine?
Less influenced by religion
Less extreme approach (more logical and slow)
Al - Razi (Rhazes)?
Wrote 50+ books (used for centuries)
Used ideas from everywhere (Galen, Chinese, Indian)
Said careful diagnosis was key
1st accurate smallpox description (logical)
Al - Zahrawi (Albucasis)?
Surgery expert
Wrote book on abdominal operations, included 200+ surgery tools
Ibn-Al-Nafis?
Didn’t believe Galen’s blood from liver theory
Said blood circulated (not burnt up)
