Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... of outstanding doctors: Beggars in Baghdad might be ...

The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was hailed by Medieval doctors as the ‘Father of ... al-Rāzī became chief physician at Baghdad's hospital. Medieval thinking about medicine evolved ...

Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned ... and they also use special ‘medicines’ for our 1,950 ancient manuscripts because those too are very valuable.” Small groups of students ...