Islamic medicine, cont.

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Who's work was accepted into Islam and why?
Galen's and because he mentioned the 'creator'
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Why did medical treatment improve?
Because Muhammad ordered Muslims to wash regularly
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When were hospitals built and what was special about them?
In the 9th century and they had different wards for different diseases, like modern hospitals
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What did doctors have to be?
Trained
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What were hospitals built near?
Supplies of water
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Albucasis was a surgeon who did what?
Described operations for removing stones from the gall bladder and using silk to sew wounds
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What were Islamic doctors taught?
How to extract teeth
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What was used to kill pain?
Laudanum
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What did they use to make false teeth?
Bone
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What did Rhazes emphasise?
The importance of observation
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What else did Rhazes do?
Identify the differences between smallpox and measles
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Avicenna set out to do what?
Complete system of medicine based on works of Galen
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What was the name of Avicenna's most famous book?
Canon of Medicine which shows clear knowledge of medicine at that time
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Ibn al-Nafis disproved what theory of Galen's?
That the heart passed through the septum - which it didn't (bit by both nostrils)
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Why couldn't he publish his work?
Because of religious control
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What was built in all major cities?
Libraries
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