al-Razi
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Philosophy, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Islam, Muslims, Mosques
- Curriculum: Medieval History/Middle Ages, Middle Eastern History
Article abstract: The most original thinker and the keenest clinical observer of all the medieval Muslim physicians, al-Razi produced the first clinical account of smallpox and measles, a twenty-four-volume compendium of medical knowledge, and set new standards for medical ethics, the clinical observation of disease, and the testing of medical treatment.
Early Life
There is little authentic information about the life of al-Razi. He was born around 864 in Rayy, a few miles from modern Tehran, administered a hospital in that town as well as in Baghdad, and...
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