Islamic medicine

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Medicine of the Arab-speaking world (Spain, North Africa, Arabia, Turkey, and Persia, now Iran) from the foundation of Islam in the early 7th century to the beginning of the European Renaissance in the 15th century. Following the end of the Roman Empire in AD 476 Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages, a period of regression and lost knowledge, while medicine flourished in the Middle East. Medical advances were aided by the strong central governments of the Arab empires, the importance placed on helping the sick by Islam, and the preservation in Arabic of medical texts by Galen, Hippocrates, and other classical Greek and Roman theorists, that had either been lost or remained unread in Europe.

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