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The Golden Age Of Islam Essay

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Today the average life expectancy of men and women worldwide is 71.0 years1, a number that surpasses any life expectancy of humans on record. Today people are living longer than ever because of advanced surgical procedures along with key innovations in medical technology. Over the past one hundred years, life expectancy of an average human has increased exponentially and the numbers show the numbers will only increase in the next one hundred years. However, before the privileges of advanced medicine were prevalent, humans would not live past their 50th or even 40th birthdays as there were no standard methods in treating sick patients. Women would die shortly after giving childbirth due complications, broken bones would be left untreated and unprotected cuts would lead to infections that eventually led to life-threatening illnesses, all due to the lack of proper healthcare and medical knowledge. Around the turn of the 1st millennium, however, the world saw an influx of new ideas in medicine, especially surgery and, unbeknownst to many, was due to the golden age of Islam, specifically the 9th 10th and 11th centuries which cleared the way for standard medical practices. …show more content…

The period before these great physicians was a time of discovery and collection of old medical knowledge and surgical procedures specifically from Greeks, Persians, Assyrian Syriacs, Indians and Byzantines2 by the scholars and physicians of the early Islamic empire. Muslims of the 7th century, were probably the most successful of the empires before them to amalgamate an abundance of medical information from ancient books and scriptures and further exploring and experimenting with their learned teachings to bring about new theories in

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