Medicine stands till - Islamic Medicine Flashcards
Name the person who traveled from Baghdad to Byzantium to collect Greek medical texts and translate them into Arabic.
Hunain Ibn Ishaq (Greek name: Johannitius)
While a lot of medical knowledge was lost in the West after the fall of the Roman Empire, what ideas were still kept alive?
Medical ideas like the four humors and treatment by opposites
Who brought the classical knowledge (Greek texts) to Europe?
Avicenna ( or Ibn Sina)
Where was Avicenna originally from and what time did he live?
Originally Persian and lived around AD 980-1037
What did Avicenna write?
Canon of medicine
What did the Canon of medicine contain?
The works of Galen and Hippocrates
Who made Europeans aware of the scientific knowledge of Islamic doctors?
The crusaders
What book did Albucasis ( or Abu al-Qasim) write?
A well-thought-out book describing amputations, bladder stones, and dental surgery.
What made Islamic doctor, Avenzoar question Galen?
He described a parasite that caused scabies
Alchemy was the attempt of?
Turn base metals into gold and discover the elixir of eternal life
Where did the practice of Alchemy originate from?
Ancient Egypt
Unlike modern chemistry, what did Alchemy include a lot of?
Superstition
If an experiment was unsuccessful what would superstition lead to scientists blame?
The positioning of the stars
What techniques did Islamic doctors invent?
Distillation
Sublimation- The transition of a solid straight to the state of gas
What years was the Islamic medicine period?
650-1500
