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While Westerners credit William Harvey for discovering blood circulation in 1616, pulmonary circulation had already been described by the Arabic doctor Ibn Al-Nafis 300 years before. While his knowledge was incomplete, Al-Nafis knew that the heart had two halves and that blood passed through the lungs when traveling from one side of the heart to the other. He also realized that the heart is nourished by capillaries.
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Islamic pharmacies, called saydalas, began at the same time as the hospitals, in the late 700s, as part of the Islamic health care system. While Western apothecaries sold ground mummies, dried dung and other strange substances as well as herbs and spices, Muslim pharmacists focused on empiricism—they used substances that showed a positive effect on the patients. In other words, if an herb, spice or other ingredient worked by assisting a sick person to heal, it was used. As Islamic pharmacology evolved, the great Muslim doctors like Al Razi, Avicenna and Al kindi discovered many healing substances for their pharmacies.
Arab pharmacies were government-supervised to ensure the purity and overall quality of the medications, which were weighed in verified scales and labeled correctly. Pharmacies began to spread throughout the Muslim world during the 9th century onwards, whether connected to a hospital or standing alone. Al-Nifas, besides his work on the circulation system, also developed a system of dosage for medications using mathematics.
As Islamic medical knowledge and methods began to filter into Western medieval medicine during the 12th century, so did their treatments for specific diseases. New healing substances were added to Western apothecaries while certain Western medicines, such as theriac, moved into Arab countries due to the growing Arab-European trade.
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If we look at technology companies that are responsible for hugh market cap (Google, FB, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Intel) all of that is driven by US. So from technology perspective I would say we have a clear winner.
if we look at auto industry, Most manufacturers are also Europe-US. Asia is a player there too (Japan, Korea, etc). Tesla is now the most valuable auto company valued by market cap - US based.
Space race - that is again mostly US based.
I cannot think of too many innovative industries driven by Arab nations.
Some factors for lack of innovation for Arab nations - abundance of oil that didnot make innovation a necessity, poverty, wars, lack of diversity.
Thanks @Logic for creating this debate.
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I think i'll leave it at that.
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Perhaps one day more Muslim nations will surprise everyone with technological advances, like Dubai made a decision to be a transformative leader, standing out in many innovative ways.
Great debating with you.
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