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      • According to the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911), he was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
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  2. Muslim philosopher, physician, and alchemist al-Razi was celebrated by his peers during his lifetime. Today he is considered to have been the greatest physician of the Islamic world. Al-Razi was known in Europe as Rhazes, the Latin version of his name.

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  3. Oct 1, 2024 · Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (full name: أبو بکر محمد بن زکریاء الرازي, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī), c. 864 or 865–925 or 935 CE, often known as (al-)Razi or by his Latin name Rhazes, also rendered Rhasis, was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age.

  4. Oct 1, 2024 · Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi facts for kids. Kids Encyclopedia Facts. This page is about the 10th-century physician and polymath. For the 12th-century theologian and polymath, see Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. For other uses, see Razi.

  5. al-Rāzī (born c. 854, Rayy, Persia [now in Iran]—died 925/935, Rayy) was a celebrated alchemist and Muslim philosopher who is also considered to have been the greatest physician of the Islamic world.

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    Al-Razi was born in Rey, Tehran – the capital of Iran in 853 AD. He has quite a long name, ‘Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakarya Al-Razi’. After his basic studies, he moved to Baghdad to study medicine. He studied medicine at hospitals and translated the Greek books written on it. This enabled him to write books over two-hundred. With much of the practice...

    Al-Razi’s long services in medicine and optics led him to lay the groundwork for Muslim Scholars to expand these subjects. Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Al-Biruni followed him and revised most of his works. Among many of his discoveries like chemical instruments to separate one chemical from others, creams for skin use, bottles, and flasks to use in labo...

    He was given the titles father of pediatrics, the doctor of doctors, and the founder of the study of eyes.
    The ruling caliph made him the chief physician and head of Rey hospitals.
    His book Al-Mansuri which was written on surgery became part of the curriculum of western universities.
  6. Sep 27, 2023 · Al-Razi was a significant figure in the Golden Age of Islamic science and medicine. His works were the foundation of modern medical practices, and his medical texts and ethical approach to medicine helped understand healthcare.

  7. Al-Razi was a doctor who helped to plan the building of a hospital in Baghdad, in modern-day Iraq. This was the first documented general hospital in the world and it opened in AD805.

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