The Contribution of Abu Ali Al-Hussayn Ibn Sina in the Medical field

 

In Medicine:

1. Abu Ali Al-Hussayn Ibn Sina: was (980-1037), Latinized to the West as Avicenna, was a greatest Persian polymath, physician, and astronomer of the Islamic Golden Age. He was the father of early modern medicine.

Ibn Sina, alone wrote 246 books, together with Kitab-al Shifa (The book of Healing) containing 20 volumes and Al-Qanun fi Tibb (The Canons of Medicine). During twelfth to seventeenth century, it was the prime source of guidance in medical field in the West.

Dr. William Osler, who remarks in his book entitled 'The Evolution of Modern Science' that "The Qanun has remained a medical Bible for longer period than any other work".

Ibn Sina's Qanun of medicine, systematically described; spreading of diseases by water and soil, and collaboration between psychology and health. Also his book defined over 760 medicines and became the most authentic source of its time.

Dr. Muhammad Adil Faridi wrote, the interest in medicine went back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h), who once said that "There is always a cure existed for every disease". With this essence, Muslim rulers of all time gave more attention to the field of medicine. The first hospital was built in 707 by Walid bin Abd al-malik in Damascus.