HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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Ibn Sina wrote a medical encyclopedia.
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They discovered how to cure Alzheimers
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They built hospitals & had pharmacies.
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They discovered blood moves to & from the heart.
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Detailed explanation-1: -William Harvey and the discovery of the circulation of the blood.
Detailed explanation-2: -Islamic doctors developed new techniques in medicine, dissection, surgery and pharmacology. They founded the first hospitals, introduced physician training and wrote encyclopaedias of medical knowledge.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Islamic Golden Age, spanning the 8th to the 15th Centuries, saw many great advances in science, as Islamic scholars gathered knowledge from across the known world and added their own findings.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ibn al-Nafis had an insight into what would become a larger theory of the capillary circulation. He stated that “there must be small communications or pores (manafidh in Arabic) between the pulmonary artery and vein, ‘’ a prediction that preceded the discovery of the capillary system by more than 400 years.