medicine progress in the islamic world

importance of learning

treating patience

other ideas

drugs

hospitals

external surgery

islam encourage learning

books were so important that by 794 AD england had its own paper factory

arabic doctors used the greek medical texts

they took books and used them to work on there own ideads and create new books

both muslims and christians thought that disease could be sent by their god

the islamic hadith told doctors to try to cure patience

christian's prefered to try to care for patience rather than cure

islamic doctors observed that hygiene was important for health

they gave patience money so they did not have to go straight back to work

they used the idea of keeping the four humours in balance

arab doctors used distllation to prepair drugs

otheium (heroine) was used as pain relief

clean sanitation