How did medicine originate? What happened in our past? Who invented medicine? What exactly went on and what events happened such that we have medicine as it is today?
Medicine has a long origin. Primitive medicine helped saved the lives of ancient communities. The ancient doctors used whatever they had and could do to manage their patients. Word of mouth spread and communities began to learn treatments from communities which knew how to treat diseases that existed. The Indians and the Chinese may be the first in Asia to invent medical practices for their specific communities. In Egypt and the Mediterranean region, the Egyptians were the first to learn and practise medicine, which then spread to the Greeks and Romans. The Arabs and Persians learned from the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and improved the medical practices and expanded the materia medica. This led to the medicine during the Golden Ages of Islam. The Europeans were living in the Dark Ages before they came to know of Arabic or Persian medicine, also termed as Islamic medicine. Prophetic medicine is a subset of Islamic medicine.
Today, these ancient Arabic manuscripts that have survived the ages, have been gathered and made available online at: http://wamcp.bibalex.org/home. This link was made known to me by Simona Milazzo, an Italian postgraduate student who wishes to do a research on Arabic medical manuscripts. Simona Milazzo is with SOAS University of London in LinkedIn.
This online archive has been made possible by a pioneering partnership between the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Wellcome Library, and King's College London, with funding from the JISC Islamic studies programme.
JISC:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/islamdigi.aspx#
JISC Contact us:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contactus.aspx
Bibliotheca Alexandrina:
http://www.bibalex.org/Home/Default_EN.aspx
Wellcome Library:
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
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