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1
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What were teachings of Islam?

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To look after and care for the sick and elderly

2
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What was the Holy Quran teachings on respect?

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The healthy had a duty to look after the sick, and the rich had a duty to help the poor

3
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How did Islamic doctors treat their patients?

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Medical care and prayer

4
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In around 1100, where were the Islamic regions with hospital production?

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Ahead of hospital production

5
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Why were Islamic doctors very knowledgable and educated?

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  • they studied world-wide scholarship (eg. Greek philosophy, Hippocrates, Galen, Theory of the four humours)
  • medical encyclopaedias where they detailed their own work in organised way - later translated into Latin
6
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Who are two Arab doctors who notably influenced medicine?

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Avicenna and Rhazes

7
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What did Avicenna do?

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  • produced encyclopaedia filled with medical knowledge which he called The Canon (used across Europe until late 1600s) - some still used today
8
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What did Rhazes do?

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  • wrote encyclopaedia detailing his own observations

- wrote first ever medical notes about the difference between measles and small pox

9
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What did the Islamic law forbid?

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(Like in Britain) dissection of human bodies