Use Source 2 Summary Page 23

1. 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 PN

2. 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 PN

3. Methods Source 3Summary Page 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 PN

4. Source 2Quote Page 24 • “God has a remedy for every illness.” PN

5. 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 PN

6. 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 PN

7. 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 PN

8. 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 PN

9. 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.” PN

10. 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 PN

11. 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. PN

12. 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.” PN

13. 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 PN

14. 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 PN

15. Impact on Today Source 2Summary 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 PN