Use Source 2Summary Page 23

• Hospitals were meant for the seriously ill• Medical treatment and cleanliness had little value• If throat was soar, they would bless it• Kings were thought to have the “Royal Healing

Touch”• Catholic Church banned surgery by Monks

Use Source 2Summary Page 23-24

• Inspired by Byzantium, Persia, India, and China• Believed that the same elements of the earth were in the

human body• Doctors were supposed to balance “Humors” to heal

someone• First hospital was established by al-Rashid• Hospitals weren’t similar to European hospitals

MethodsSource 3

SummaryPage 50-52

• Hospitals were called Bimaristans• Society devoted to• Promotion of health• Cure of disease• Pursuit of medical knowledge• Sabir Ibn hayyan was the father of Arab pharmacopeia • They developed syrups and juleps

Source 2Quote Page 24

• “God has a remedy for every illness.”

Methods Source 3Summary Pages 48-

• Believed that the source of health problems were from peoples doing

• Example: If an arm was sore, it was only because it was used too much

People Involved Source 3Summary Pages

• Ibn Sina was mainly interested in healing• Came from a family that valued learning• Operated a lot of free clinics• Believed that the natural healing process shouldn’t be

interfered with• Ex. Not getting enough sleep with a cold• Most curing was made to unblock the body• Wrote 270 works about healing and medicine• Died in 1037, due to stomach pains that didn’t respond to his

treatments

People involved Source 3Summary Pages 48-51

• Al-Razi: Famous doctor 1 century befory Ibn Sina• 865-925 or 926• Wrote 20 volume book about all branches of medicine• Muslims founded hospital in Demascus, 707• Lived a century before Ibn-Sina• Wrote about the treatment of smallpox and measles

Methods Source 3Summary Pages 50-51

• Based on Greeks, Persians, and Indians• Book Called: The Canon of Medicine had information on all

Arabian medical plants• Used antiseptics to clean wounds• During operations used:• Knives• Scalpels• Probes• Hooks

Methods Source 3Quote Page 51

• “In the year 707, just seventy-six years after the Prophet’s death, the Moslems founded a hospital in Demascus. They staffed it with doctors paid by the government, and it provided a full range of hospital services.”

Important People Source 2Summary Page 27

• Arab medicine started at the end of the ninth century• Al-razi went to Baghdad to study medicine at 40• Selected as the director of a new hospital there• Regarded as greatest clinician in Islam and most original

thinker• Benefited by using medical plants• Continued to educate licensed physicians • Continued to write about medicine after he stopped working

in Baghdad

People Involved Source 3Paraphrase Pages 26-27

• Ibn Sina’s main interest was the search for knowledge.• Ibn Sina offered a series of free clinics to help sick and injured

people• Many of his treatments involved the use of herbs, hob baths,

and major surgery• In the past, doctors who had such theories were content to

reason about them and argue with one another over such ideas.

People involved Source 2Quote Page 27

• Al-Razi• “His first major work was a 10 part treatise entitled Al-Katab

al-Mansury… In it, he discussed such varied subject as general medicine theories and definitions; diet and drugs and their effect on the human body.”

Types and People involved Source 2Paraphrase Pages 27-28

• Al-Razi also prepared Al-Jundari wa al Hasbah, the first treatise ever written on smallpox and measles.

• Al-Razi became the first to distinguish the two diseases from each other. (Smallpox and Measles)

• His most esteemein 25 books, The Comprehensive Work• Intended book to be a summary from a lifetime of collecting

data

Important People Source 2Summary Page 28

• Ibn sina:• Son of a tax collecter• Memorized Koran by age 10• Started studying medicine with ease at age 16• Wrote 20 books on theology, metaphysics, astronomy,

philology and poetry • Wrote 20 additional books on medicine• Stressed the importance of healthy eating• Also talked about the effects of climate and environment on

human health

Impact on TodaySource 2

Summary Page 31

• The Cannon was used by University of Vienna until 1537• Al-Razi’s work was part of the medical curriculem of the

university of Tubingen until the 15th century• Portraits of Al-Razi and Ibn Sina are still treasured by Arabs

today• Al-Razi and Ibn Sina were contemporarily regarded as the

greatest medical authorities • Their discoveries are the basis of medical studies today• Islamic world was thought to have started the successful line

of medical knowledge