Traditional Eastern Medicine: Islamic Medicine

Question 1

Application of suction cups to the skin to draw out stagnant, congested blood and Vital Force

Answer 1

Hijama (suction)

Question 2

Most renowned Muslim physician

He tended to rich patients, but also to the poor for no charge

Stressed the doctor-patient relationship

Answer 2

Al-Razi

Question 3

First physician in history who described in detail the symptoms and signs of smallpox and measles based on clinical examination.

Answer 3

Al-Razi

Question 4

He is considered the equivalent of Galen or Hippocrates in the Arab world

Answer 4

Al-Razi

Question 5

Believed that many diagnoses can be made by simply checking the pulse or examining the urine

Answer 5

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Question 6

Discussed the discovery of contagious and sexually transmitted diseases, concept of quarantine, anatomy of the human eye, symptoms of diabetes, mechanisms of the heart

Answer 6

The Canon of Medicine

Question 7

First surgeon to use absorbable catgut sutures

Pioneering surgeon who wrote a 24 volume treatise on surgery.

Father of Modern Surgery

Answer 7

Al-Zahrawi

Question 8

One of the great achievements of medieval Islamic society

Were largely secular; open to male and female, rich or poor, Muslim or non-Muslim

Teaching institutions

Answer 8

Islamic Hospitals or bimaristan