Medical Progress 📚 Flashcards
How did islam influence medival medicine?
Islamic doctors made great contributions to medical knowledge
What happend during 786-809?
Baghdad became a centre for the translation of Greek manuscripts into the language of Islam
What happened in 805?
Al-Rashid set up a major new hospital ni Baghdad with amedical school and library
What happend in 813-33?
.reign of Caliph al-Mamum
• developed al-Rashid’s library into The House of Wisdom’
• preserved hundreds of ancient Greek medical
books by Hippocrates and Galen
What were bimaristans?
.muslim hospitals
.meant for treating patients not ‘care not cure’ like Christian’s
What did Avicenna do?
.wrote a great encyclopaedia of ancient Greek and Islamic medicine known as Canon of Medicine
•this listed the medical properties of 760 different drug
. it became the standard European medical textbook used to teach doctors in the West until the seventeenth century
Where did John hunter begin his medical training?
Anatomy school
How did John hunter source specimens to study and experiment upon?
Bodies of criminals and paying body snatchers
How did war help hunter to develop as a surgeon?
Served as an army surgeon
Name two anaesthetics used in the 19th century prior to the work of James Simpson?
Ether and nitroxide
Why did James Simpson face opposition to the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic?
Interfering with god
Who was of the great help in accepting chloroform as a reliable anaesthetic?
Queen Victoria used chloroform with her eighth child,d
Name three issues that were encountered with early anaesthetics
Committing,overdose,fire
Which scientist inspired Joseph listers antiseptic surgery?
Louis Pasteur
Name the compound that was sprayed upon the surgery, the surgical instruments and rubbed upon the surgeon’s hands?
Carbolic acid
