history medicine own decks

• Who was al rhazes and why was he important?(medeival ages - COD)

  -he wrote over 150 books including on called 'doubts about Galen'

  -distinguished measles from smallpox through observation
• who was Ibn al-Nafis? (surgery- middle ages)

  proved galen wrong- said blood is carried by arteries not holes like galen said
• Who was Avicennna? (surgery in Middle Ages)


  a surgeon who wrote encyclopaedia "canon of medicine" which was translated from greek to arabic
• what were muslim hospitals called?

  bismaristans
• how did islamic knowledge spread

  in 1065, arrived in italy. reached england through trade as new books,drugs and equipment bough
• what was set up in baghdad that made great contribution to medicine

  a new hospital

  a medical school

  a library (largest in world)