Chapters 12-15
1001 Cures
Contributions in Medicine & Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation
The New Chemical Medicine explains both theoretical principles and chemical operations in general, and gives instructions for the distillation of simples to prepare spirits and oils.
Ethics
Of all the secular disciplines, it is perhaps medicine which has developed the most elaborate system of – and which places the most emphasis on – its own professional ethics.
The first bīmāristān in the Islamic world is commonly attributed to the Abbasid caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (d. 809), who supposedly built his hospital in Baghdad on the advice of his Syriac-Persianate physicians and courtiers.
Al-Rāzī, the Clinician
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyāʾ al-Rāzī was one of the most innovative clinicians of the Arabo-Islamic Middle Ages, as well as a philosopher and an alchemist.