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The history of medicine is very interesting. Centuries before the advent of Islam, Arabs had) their own system of medicine in the form of herbs and shrubs ( ‘Aqaqir Hashä’ish wal-based Chaldean and medicine on their own experiences. Her doctor was Luqman and Khuzaim second. By and by Greek medicine has attracted his attention. Harith Ibn Kaldah Greek medicine was first introduced to the Arabs. Then began a few books are written on the subject. Tiazauq together some papers on pharmacology and Khalid Ibn Yazid Ibn Mu’awiyah got some Egyptian and Greek books translated into Arabic. It is in this state during the reign of Banu Umayyah. “But the science of medicine flourished during the reign of the Abbasi. 1 ”
First, Muslims will arrange for the translation of Greek medicine, Indian, Persian and Chaldean works in Arabic, and thus acquired the knowledge of medical systems of these countries. But they were not accepted as such, who had offered to these systems. They have done research in various fields of medical science, and accepts what has been proven. She also made many important discoveries in the theory and practice of medicine. Then sorted on their discoveries and the combination of hardware of these systems, they have developed a completely new system of medicine. When Europeans have learned the system on Muslims in general by the Arabic medical literature, calling it correctly, Arab medicine, recognizing the one hand, their debt to the Muslims, and on the other hand, put the seal of proof to extensive and original contributions of Muslim scientists in medicine. As medical knowledge has been largely adopted by the Greeks, has been appointed the new system by the Muslims of the subcontinent of South Asia Tibb-e-Yûnanî (Greek medicine). This law gives evidence of the Muslim spirit of liberalism. Read the rest of this entry »

It is probably fair to say that medical science is well advanced. From the discovery of penicillin by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928, the first human to human heart transplant in South Africa, heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard in 1967, the 20th century saw some of the most important medical breakthroughs.

But while we can not deny the universal importance of Fleming and academic progress of Barnard, there were a number of other medical visionaries remarkable that we appreciate to be, some of whom may not get the credit that they deserve.

Number of technological inventions, it is not always easy to give credit to a person because they may have been refined and perfected over a period of time. In fact, there may indeed be a number of people who have helped the technology over several decades of progress. Read the rest of this entry »

The history of Medical Science is very interesting. Centuries before the advent of Islam the Arabs had their own system of medicine in the form of herbs and shrubs (‘Aqaqir wa’l Hashä’ish) which was based on Chaldean medicine and on their own experience. Their first physician was Luqmân and the second Khuzaim. Gradually, Greek medicine attracted their attention. Harith Ibn Kaldah was the first to introduce Greek medicine to the Arabs. Aft Read the rest of this entry »