Upcoming Mega Event >>> International Association of Disability and Oral Health is convening its 20th Congress at International Convention Center Ghent, Belgium on August 25-28, 2010. Theme will be “Caring For Quality of Life” Hosted by the Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry and Special Care of Ghent University.
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Scientific Islam-Medicine Contributions of Islam to modern Science! In Islam, the human body is a source of appreciation, as it is created by Almighty Allah (God). How it functions, how to keep it clean and safe, how to prevent diseases from attacking it or cure those diseases, have been important issues for Muslims. Ibn-e-Sina (d. 1037), better known to the West as Avicenna, was perhaps the greatest physician until the modern era. greatest physicians in the world in the MidThe famous book by Ibn-e-Sina, Al-Qanun fi dle Ages .He stressed empirical observation al-Tibb, remained a standard textbook even and clinical medicine and was unrivalled as a in Europe, s", for over 700 years. Ibn Sina's diagnostician. He also wrote a treatise on work is still studied and built upon in the hygiene in hospitals. Kahaf E a s t . "God created no illness, exAbul-Qasim Al-Sahabi was a Prophet Muhammad himself urged people to cept that He has established very famous surgeon in the "take medicines for your for it a cure, except for old eleventh century, known in diseases", as people at age. When the antidote is ap- Europe for his work, that time were reluctant Concession (Kitab alplied, the patient will recover Tasrif).Other to do so. He also said, significant ”God created no illness, with the permission of God." contributions were made in except that He has espharmacology, such as Ibn tablished for it a cure, except for old age. Sina's Kitab al-Shifa' (Book of Healing), and in public health. Every major city in the When the antidote is applied, the patient will Islamic world had a number of excellent recover with the permission of God.” hospitals, some of them teaching hospitals, Since the religion did not forbid it, Muslim and many of them were specialized for scholars used human cadavers to study anatparticular diseases, including mental and omy and physiology and to help their students emotional. The Ottomans were particularly understand how the body functions. This emnoted for their building of hospitals and for pirical study enabled surgery to develop very the high level of hygiene practiced in them. quickly.Al-Razi, known in the West as Rhazes, the famous physician and scientist, (d. 932) was one of the
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Tamseela Rashid Deputy Secretary, School Education Department, Punjab.