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The Al-Nuri Hospital |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 December, 2002 |
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ln 1154 Nur-al-Din Zangi built a hospital in Damascus. It was called al-Nuri, or al-Zangi.
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The Marrakech Hospital |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 December, 2002 |
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Built by Al-Mansur who rules Morocco and Spain until his death(1184-1199AD). At its time, the hospital had no equal in the world.
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Urinary Stone Disease in Arabian Medicine |
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By: A M Dajani, F.R.C.S(Glas.), Sat 31 August, 2002 |
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Urinary stone disease (urolithiasis) was discussed in great detail in Arabian Medicine. Explanations given by Ibn Qurrah, Al Razi, Ibn Sina and Al Zahrawi about the formation and growth of urinary stones do not basically differ from modern concepts.
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Health Protection in Islam |
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By: N. Daniel, Sun 21 July, 2002 |
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On the six things that are necessary to any man for the daily conservation of his health, with its corrections and operations.
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Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi the Great Surgeon |
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By: Dr. Ibrahim Shaikh, Sat 22 December, 2001 |
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Dr. Ibrahim Shaikh Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE), also known in the West as Albucasis, was an Andalusian physician. He is considered as the greatest surgeon in the Islamic medical tradition. His comprehensive medical texts, combining Middle Eastern and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures up until the Renaissance. His greatest contribution to history is Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume collection of medical practice, of which large portions were translated into Latin and in other European languages.
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Eye Specialists in Islam |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 20 December, 2001 |
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"I invite you... to go back with me 1000 years to consider the fascinating history of the old Arabian ophthalmology which I have studied in the past five years." With these words Julius Hirschberg, addressing the American Medical Association in July 1905, presented the work of Muslim ophtalmologists. Inspired by the pionnering work of the eminent German expert, Dr Ibrahim Shaikh describes in brief in this well informed article the contributions of Al-Ghafiqi, Ibn al-Haytham, Salahuddin Ibn Yusuf, Kalifah of Aleppo, Zarrindast, and Ammar Al-Mosuli. He devotes a special interest to the first description of cataract operation by Al-Mosuli and its subsequent impact on the works of his followers.
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Who Discovered Pulmonary Circulation, Ibn Al-Nafis or Harvey? |
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By: Dr Ibrahim Shaikh, Sun 14 October, 2001 |
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Sir William Harvey is wrongly credited with the modern theory of Pulmonary Circulation. Ibn Al-Nafis, an Arab physician of the 13th Century, explained the basic principles of Pulmonary Circulation nearly 350 years before Harvey was born.
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