Outline the Contributions made by Ibn Sina to Medicine.

      

Outline the Contributions made by Ibn Sina to Medicine.

  

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Kavungya
i. Ibn Sina wrote the canon of medicine, which is his most celebrated book in medicine, presents a summary of all the medical knowledge of his time
ii. He wrote a complete section about kidney calculi in his book. Totally, 65 herbal, 8 animal, and 4 mineral medicines are mentioned in his book as beneficial drugs for dissolving, expelling, and preventing kidney calculi.
iii. Ibn-Sina introduced very advanced drug designing based on drug delivery, targeting the organ, deposition in the site of action, pain control, wound healing, clearance after action, and supporting the organ.
iv. Using Ibn-Sina's ideas help scientists to choose better drugs with a historical background to reduce the cost of therapies and research projects.
v. Discovery of sexually transmitted diseases
vi. First detailed description of skin problems, perversions and nervous ailments
vii. First description of Meningitis
viii. First known treatment of cancer. Discovery of cancer as a tumor.
ix. Discovery of the causes of bleeding and hemorrhage
x. First descriptions of bacterial and viral organisms
xi. Description of working of heart as a valve
xii. First diagrams of the cranial sutures
xiii. Discovered that madness is a disorder of reason with its origin in the middle part of the brain.
xiv. Introduction of quarantine for contagious diseases
xv. Identification of tuberculosis and phthisis as contagious
xvi. First description of the surgical procedure of intubation
xvii. Discovered the cerebellar vermis and the caudate nucleus (Neuroanatomy)
Kavungya answered the question on June 21, 2019 at 09:32


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