MEDICINE IN THE

ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE

By Allie Pinosky, Kelly Herring, and Frances Grimball

GENERAL ADVANCEMENTS Surgery Pharmacology Medical Texts Drugs Nutrition Causes and sources of disease

IBN SINA (AVICENNA) 16 medical works

Qanun 1. General Principles2. Simple Drugs3. Diseases of particular organs and parts of

the body4. Diseases which spread to other body parts5. Compound medicines

Translated into Latin (12 century) “Canon”

Chief Medical Text of Europe

AL-ZAHRAWI Medical Encyclopedia

At-Tasrif30 volumesTranslated into Latin 12th

century Great advancements in

SurgeryVariety of operations and

procedures Illustrations and

explanations of surgical instruments

Page from a 1531 Latin translation by Peter Argellata of El Zahrawi's treatise on surgical and medical instruments. 

AL-RAZI Kitab al-Mansuri

Largest Encyclopedia Experiments on Animals Opium as form of Anesthesia Wrote book of home remedies Discovered bad effects of alcoholism Employed by Harun Al-Rashid to build

first hospital

HOSPITALS (BIMARISTANS) First Hospital: 86 AH (712 CE) High level of Organization Cairo, Damascus Doctors worked shifts 5 types of hospitals

1. Mental disease2. Leprosy3. Road4. Prison5. Mobile

Maristan

IMPACT

CanonWestern Europe

At-Tasrif Surgical Techniques and Instruments Hospitals Recording Greek knowledge

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