The Life Sciences Flashcards
who translated the most important medical writings of the Greek and established a solid foundation for the development of Arabic medicine?
Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. 873); Among the work he translated were the extant writings of Galen and Hippocrates.
Hospitals (Bimaristan):
The Arab concept of hospital became the prototype for the development of modern hospitals.
Among the first were ‘Adudi I hospital in Baghdad, followed by Nuri in Damascus and Nasiri in Cairo.
who were Physicians?
- ibn Sina (Avicenna) (d. 946) was a physician, astronomer, physicist, mathematician and philosopher from Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
- Ibn Butlan (d. 1068) among other things, he recommended the utilization of fine music to lift the morals of patients and help speed recovery!
- Ibn Jazzar (d. 984): His most interesting publication was a book on the management and care of children.
The Canon of Medicine by?
ibn Sina
Abu Bakr Zakariya al-Razi was?
polymath who wrote on a variety of topics, but his most important works were in the field of medicine
- He identified smallpox and measles, and recognized fever was part of the body’s defenses.
- He wrote a comprehensive medical encyclopedia Al-Hawi and a treatise on psychic therapy At-Tibb al-Ruhani.
who was the greatest surgeon of medieval Islam?
Al-Zahrawi
Al-Zahrawi most famous surviving work is referred to as?
l-Tasrif (Medical Knowledge):
It is a 30 volume set discussing medical symptoms, treatments, and mostly pharmacology, but it is the last volume of the set which has attracted the most attention over time. This last volume is a surgical manual describing surgical instruments, supplies and procedures. Scholars studying this manual are discovering references to procedures previously believed to belong to more modern times.
who was Ibn al-Nafis?
Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288) was a physician who was born in Damascus and practiced medicine as head physician at the al-Mansuri hospital in Cairo. He wrote an influential book on medicine, believed to have replaced ibn-Sina’s Canon in the Islamic world.
what was ibn al-nafis most important work?
- He wrote important commentaries on Galen and ibn-Sina’s works.
- One of these commentaries was discovered in 1924, and yielded a description of pulmonary system and the circulation of blood from the right to left ventricles of the heart through the lungs.
how was the Translation from Arabic to Latin language?
At the beginning of the 12th century European science lagged behind Arab science, and the production of texts written in Arabic by Andalusian scholars spread to the northern towns of Spain and to Toledo.
when was The Toledo School of Translation was established ?
mid 12th century
