Chapters 4-7
1001 Cures
Contributions in Medicine & Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation
Arab physicians preferred the preservation of health to its restoration, arguing that to preserve something present is nobler than to seek something absent...
The reciprocity between soul and body represents one of the core principles of Arabic medicine. Arab physicians took a massive interest in explaining the mutual influence of these two dimensions of the human being and using it to optimise treatment...
Pharmacology
This chapter depicts pharmacy in the pre-modern Islamic world, circa 700–1500, mainly in the region between present-day Iran and Egypt...
There can be little doubt that physicians and surgeons living in the lands of medieval Islamic civilisation made a significant contribution to the field of surgery...