Bimaristans: hospitals as institutions
Endowed public hospitals — bimaristans — spread through the Islamic world, offering care regardless of creed, with wards, teaching and medical licensing.
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Bimaristans: hospitals as institutions
Endowed public hospitals — bimaristans — spread through the Islamic world, offering care regardless of creed, with wards, teaching and medical licensing.
Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine
Avicenna's Canon organized all medical knowledge of its day into a systematic encyclopedia of diseases, drugs and clinical method.