Background Source 2 Q131 “The best gift from Allah to mankind is good health. Everyone should reach that goal by preserving it for now and the future.”

Physicians 2 S135 Al-Razi-Known in the west by Latin name Rhazes He was a polymath; smart in all subjects (not just in medicine Subjects included; theology, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, natural sciences, and alchemy Texts included; “On the fact that even Skillful Physicians Cannot Heal Diseases” and “Why People Prefer Quacks and Charlatans to Skilled Physicians” Most famous text was called, “On Smallpox and Measles”

Medicine 2 Q131 “It was thought that illness could be countered by utilizing the patient’s own systemic resources in helping along the processes of curing or healing.”

Magic2 Q132 “Evil spirits or forces of magic often connected with disease and treatment in the medieval west and elsewhere.”

Tools/Antibiotics 2 Q132 “One of Muslims’ greatest sources of practical info, used by both physicians and pharmacists, was De Materia Medica, Written in the 1 st Century AD by Dioscorides, a Greek surgeon on duty with the Roman Army.

Tools/Antibiotics2 S132 The De Materia Medica described with detail: – The broad range of drugs, and plants from which the drugs could be extracted – The medicinal herbs of Indian Medicine etc.

Hospitals 2 S133 The Muslim’s had great organizing skills and had, “special clinical and surgical skills,” These together made the development of their hospitals a great success!

Hospitals 2 S133 In Medieval Europe: – Hospitals were associated with religious orders, in particular monasteries.

Cures 2 Q133 “Beyond utilizing pharmacies and gardens of medical plants, medical care, while compassionate, was oriented more to filling the patients spiritual needs that to treating bodily disease and injury.”

Diseases2 Q133 “Thoughtful attention was given to mental illness in the medieval west, but some of the less severe manifestations of psychosis were frowned on by the church as symptoms of laziness

Hospitals 2 S133 The first hospitals was built in the 8 th century under Caliph Al-Rashid (Or the Caliph of the Thousand Nights and One Night). The second hospital and so on were built from one city to another all throughout the islamic empire.