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Figure 1: Page from The Result of Thinking about the Cure of Eye Diseases (Natijat al-fikar fi `ilaj amrad al-basar) written in Cairo by Fath al-Din al-Qaysi (d. 1259/657 H). Copy finished by unnamed scribe on 16 November 1501 (5 Jumada I 907 H). National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, MS A48, fols. 7b-8a (Source).

Anaesthesia 1000 Years Ago (II)

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Figure 1: Drawing of the cross section of the Brain and the Eyes made by the 13th century Khalifa ibn Abi Al Mahasin Al-Halabi (from Aleppo) in his book Al-Kafi Fi Al-Kuhl (The Book of Sufficient Knowledge in Ophthalmology) (Source).

Anaesthesia 1000 Years Ago (I)

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Figure 1: The alchemist by the painter William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891).

From Alchemy to Chemistry

Until recently, the mainstream history of scientific ideas...

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Rhazes in the Renaissance of Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius' (1514–64) first publication was a...

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Figure 1: First page of the Arabic manuscript of Kitab fi al-Jadari wa-‘l-Hasaba. Source: The Leiden University Library.

A Medical Classic: Al-Razi’s Treatise on Smallpox and Measles

Dr. Nasim Hasan Naqvi Kitab fi Al Jadari wa Al Hasaba...

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Figure 1: Entrance of Bīmaristan Arghun AI-Kāmilī, Aleppo, Syria.

Four Medieval Hospitals in Syria

The creation of hospitals as institutions for the care of...

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Figure 1: Pincers devised by al-Razi to grasp vesical stones (see below reference [31] for the source).

Paediatric Urology 1000 Years Ago

In this study, we present a brief commentary on four books...

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Figure 1: 15th-century European portrait of "Geber", the Latin name of Jabir ibn Hayyan: in Codici Ashburnhamiani 1166, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence (image in the public domain).