The Father of Islamic Medicine - Al Razi
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The Great Polymath - Ibn Sina
- true polymath who excelled in many academic fields, including philosophy, theology, Islamic medicine and natural sciences
- His publication, 'The Canon,' became a core text for physicians across the Islamic world and Europe, laying out a detailed guide for diagnosing and treating ailments
- believed that many diagnoses could be made by simply checking the pulse and the urine
- other breakthroughs were some suggestions for infant care and, based upon his belief that bad water was responsible for many ailments, he included guidelines on how to check the purity of water
The Documenter of Islamic Medicine - Al Kindi
- has been argued that the Islamic contribution to the history of medicine saw the first divide between medicine and pharmacology as separate sciences
- . In his Aqrabadhin (Medical Formulary), he described many preparations drawn from plant, animal and mineral sources
- his books contained information based upon medicinal herbs, aromatic compounds, such as musk, and inorganic medicines
The Respiratory and Circulatory Systems- Ibn Al Nafis
- first scholar to understand the respire-circulatory system
- correctly observed that the blood in the lungs mixed with air
- touched upon the subject of the role of capillaries in circulation, proposing that the pulmonary artery and vein were linked by microscopic pores; it would not be until four centuries later that this theory was rediscovered and the idea of capillaries was extended to the rest of the body
- was the first to understand the mechanisms behind the pulse
- great proponent of dissection, and he corrected many misconceptions in physiology concerning the brain, gall bladder, bone structure and the nervous system
- little of his work was translated into Latin, his work was woefully underutilized by western scientists
- introduced mathematics and the idea of dosages to administration of treatments
References
Header - Albucasis blistering a patient in the hospital at Cordova, 1100, by Ernest Board, c. 1912. Wellcome Library, London.
Attewell, G. (2003). Islamic Medicines: Perspectives on the Greek Legacy in the History of Islamic Medical Traditions in West Asia, In Selin, H. (Ed.). Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, pp325-350. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Ede, A. & Cormack, L.B. (2012). A History of Science in Society: From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, North York, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press
Meri, J.W. (2006). Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis
"Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies." Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
"Great Muslim Medical Minds." Insite Platform +. 01 Dec. 2015.
Header - Albucasis blistering a patient in the hospital at Cordova, 1100, by Ernest Board, c. 1912. Wellcome Library, London.
Attewell, G. (2003). Islamic Medicines: Perspectives on the Greek Legacy in the History of Islamic Medical Traditions in West Asia, In Selin, H. (Ed.). Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, pp325-350. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Ede, A. & Cormack, L.B. (2012). A History of Science in Society: From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, North York, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press
Meri, J.W. (2006). Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis
"Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies." Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
"Great Muslim Medical Minds." Insite Platform +. 01 Dec. 2015.