ISLAM AND MUSLIM DOCTORS

• • Teachings of Islam is to care and look after the sick and elderly
  • Quran taught that the healthy have a duty to look after the sick and the rich have a duty to help the poor
  • The Islamic states were ahead of hospital production and treated their patients with a combination of medical care and prayer
• Islamic Empire


  Islamic Empire believed in improving knowledge and education

  Baghdad was the centre collection and translation of medical theories which were gathered from across the world including works of Hippocrates and Galen
• Avicenna


  Avicenna produced the canon - filled with medical knowledge
• Rhazes


  Rhazes detailed his own observations and wrote the difference between measles and small pox
• • Islamic law forbade the dissection of human bodies, so Galens ideas were adopted