Medical progress

Question 1

786-809

Answer 1

Reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid: Bagdad became a center for the translation of Greek manuscripts into the language of Islam

Question 2

805

Answer 2

Al-Rashid set up a major new hospital in Baghdad with a medical school and library

Question 3

813-833

Answer 3

1)Reign of Caliph al-Mamun:

.Developed al-Rashid’s library into ‘The House of Wisdom’ - the world’s largest library and a study center of scholars

.Preserved hundreds of ancient Greek medical books by Hippocrates and Galen, which were lost to Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages

Question 4

Islam quote

Answer 4

‘for every disease, Allah has given a cure.’

Question 5

Drugs discovered by Muslim scientist :

Answer 5

Senna: medication used to treat constipation and empty the large intestine
Naphtha: the main active ingredient in some laundry soap

Question 6

Muslim Hospitals :

Answer 6

Bimaristans were meant for treating patients, not simply caring for them was the case in the Christian world.

Question 7

Islamic doctor - Rhazes :

Answer 7

1) distinguished measles from smallpox for the first time
2) wrote 150 books
3)followed Galen, but was critical: one of his books was called Doubts about Galen

Question 8

Islamic doctor - Avicenna :

Answer 8

. wrote a great encyclopedia of ancient Greek and Islamic medicine known as Canon of Medicine.
.This listed the medical properties of 760 drugs and discussed anorexia and obesity.
.It became the standard European medical textbook used to teach doctors in the West until the seventeenth century.

Question 9

Islamic doctor - Ibn al -Nafis:

Answer 9

.In the thirteenth century, he concluded that Galen was wrong about how the heart worked, claiming that blood circulated via the lungs
.but Islam did not allow human dissection, and his books were not read in the West
. Europeans continued to accept Galen’s mistake until the seventeenth century.