Lecture 1- Islamic Medicine

Question 1

Where are the earliest extant written medicinal recipes?

Answer 1

On Sumerian clay tables from the Mesopotamia region.

Question 2

When did the scent of Islamic medicine begin?

Answer 2

early 8th century

Question 3

Which preceding cultures did Islamic medicine evolve from?

Answer 3

Mesopotamia, India, Persia, Egypt, Greece and North Africa

Question 4

What did Hunayn ibn Ishaq do in the late 800s?

Answer 4

translated Galen into Arabic

Question 5

What did Ibn al-Jazzar produce? When?

Answer 5

the treatise on Simple Drugs in 979CE

Question 6

Who is Ibn Sina and what is the author to?

Answer 6

Known in the west by Avicenna and authored over 200 treatises (mostly medicine)

Question 7

What was Ibn Sina’s largest and most famous of his works?

Answer 7

The five-volume Canon of Medicine, a treatise on medicine and medicinal plants

Question 8

What was Ibn Sina’s work primarily influenced by?

Answer 8

Greek and Roman medical traditions