How Did Islamic Medicine Contribute to Medical Progress
How did Islamic medicine contribute to medical progress?
1. Islamic hospitals and ‘bimaristans’ were organised and set up to try to cure their patients and give them treatment instead of simply caring for them. They offered medical care to everyone whether they were rich or poor or of any religion, race or gender. This meant the doctors were constantly working almost constantly on site of the hospitals so they gained more experience very quickly. Also it gave medical students that were studying there a chance to train when they worked along side the doctors. The hospitals also let people learn and gain medical knowledge, as they set up a medical school and a library for people interested in medicine and health. This way the hospitals could employ more properly trained doctors and nurses. The hospitals over all were very organised as they had wards for specific diseases and even set up hospitals for the mentally ill which were called ‘maristans’. Islamic doctors moved away from superstitions and religious causes and cures for disease and looked at natural ways to treat patients. Compared to the Christian views on mentally ill people being possessed they saw them as victims of an unfortunate illness. So over all Islamic hospitals were much more organised than Christian hospitals as they cared for all, gave treatments and had moved away from religious views on disease.
2. Rhazes was an important individual in the history of medicine because he created new medical ideas. He continued to stress the importance of observing the patient carefully and record any findings. From his records he managed to distinguish the difference between measles and small pox. He also believed that healthy environments were incredibly important. When he was asked to become a director of a new hospital in Baghdad he created a clever plan to decide where to site the hospital. He chose various sites and hung meat up in the areas and observed how much the meat decayed in the places.
1. Islamic hospitals and ‘bimaristans’ were organised and set up to try to cure their patients and give them treatment instead of simply caring for them. They offered medical care to everyone whether they were rich or poor or of any religion, race or gender. This meant the doctors were constantly working almost constantly on site of the hospitals so they gained more experience very quickly. Also it gave medical students that were studying there a chance to train when they worked along side the doctors. The hospitals also let people learn and gain medical knowledge, as they set up a medical school and a library for people interested in medicine and health. This way the hospitals could employ more properly trained doctors and nurses. The hospitals over all were very organised as they had wards for specific diseases and even set up hospitals for the mentally ill which were called ‘maristans’. Islamic doctors moved away from superstitions and religious causes and cures for disease and looked at natural ways to treat patients. Compared to the Christian views on mentally ill people being possessed they saw them as victims of an unfortunate illness. So over all Islamic hospitals were much more organised than Christian hospitals as they cared for all, gave treatments and had moved away from religious views on disease.
2. Rhazes was an important individual in the history of medicine because he created new medical ideas. He continued to stress the importance of observing the patient carefully and record any findings. From his records he managed to distinguish the difference between measles and small pox. He also believed that healthy environments were incredibly important. When he was asked to become a director of a new hospital in Baghdad he created a clever plan to decide where to site the hospital. He chose various sites and hung meat up in the areas and observed how much the meat decayed in the places.