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The earliest historical evidence of coffee drinking appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of the Yemen in southern Arabia. [126] [127] From Mocha, coffee spread to Egypt and North Africa, [128] and by the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia and Turkey.
Medical contributions made by medieval Islam included the use of plants as a type of remedy or medicine. Medieval Islamic physicians used natural substances as a source of medicinal drugs—including Papaver somniferum Linnaeus, poppy, and Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, hemp. [82] In pre-Islamic Arabia, neither poppy nor hemp was known. [82]
Surgical instruments described by al-Zahrawi. Al-Zahrawi introduced over 200 surgical instruments, [28] which include, among others, different kinds of scalpels, retractors, curettes, pincers, specula, and also instruments designed for his favoured techniques of cauterization and ligature. He also invented hooks with a double tip for use in ...
Works by physicians who lived under the rule of Islam during the Middle Ages, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity or language. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The Kitāb al-Taṣrīf (Arabic: كتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف, lit. 'The Arrangement of Medical Knowledge for One Who is Not Able to Compile a Book for Himself'), [1] known in English as The Method of Medicine, is a 30-volume Arabic encyclopedia on medicine and surgery, written near the year 1000 by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis).
The ancient Egyptians had some surgical instruments, [44] [45] as well as crude analgesics and sedatives, including possibly an extract prepared from the mandrake fruit. [46] The use of preparations similar to opium in surgery is recorded in the Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical papyrus written in the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Physicians of the medieval Islamic world (6 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Medicine in the medieval Islamic world" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...