Razi busy in medicine at Baghdad for 50 years and as well as...

Razi busy in medicine at Baghdad for 50 years and as well as applying what he read in other medical books, he carried out numerous experiments and displayed great initiative intreating patients. He has outlined and described all the methods he had adopted in his books. Some of his ideas, suggestions and initiatives are still of points of value and are being applied at the present time.

The Role Of Religion In Muslim Physicians Here we have to notice that, after the transferral of foreign sciences to Islamic countries and the familiarization of the Muslims with those sciences, the spirit of science in all civilizations was manifested and two great forces, spirituality and materialism, were combined. Nevertheless, for a Muslim physician the doctrine of "Every thing Belongs to God" had always been the main pivoting criteria and was always outstanding in their activities.

The Muslim scientists who believed in this principle were humble servants of their society. Secularists, who based their practice on laws and were primarily concerned with acquiring the means of their enjoyment, were categorically different. Great Islamic scientists have referred to Razi with much respect and they have confirmed that he acted compassionately towards his patients and used to treat poor people free of charge.

He spent some of his wealth in order to purchase medicine or food for his patients and if they didn't have a place in which to be treated, he used to bring them to his own house. There are many stories about the life of Razi and all of them illustrate that he possessed high morals and Great Spirit. One example we would like to mention here is the story that one day Razi was walking alone in the street, where he saw someone lying unconscious on the floor.

The passer by, had thought the man was dead. But Razi, after a close examination, asked people to find pieces of sticks. He told them to beat the unconscious man's consciousness and opened his eyes. In the view of everybody who witnessed this, Razi has restored life to a dead body.

When the Caliph asked Razi what this miracleous treatment had been, he answered that he had never used that treatment previously, but it had been applied successfully by primitive people, and it was not such an important matter. "The only thing which I did was to remember what the Beduins did to a sufferer of this kind; hence the credit should go to them and not me'', said Razi. Previous…