Middle Ages (11 set 800 ano – 11 set 1400 ano)

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Renewed interest in the medical practice of Greeks and Romans

Physicians began to obtain knowledge at medical universities in the 9th century

A pandemic (worldwide epidemic) of the bubonic plague (black death) killed three quarters of the population of Europe and Asia

Major diseases were smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, the plague, and malaria

Arab physicians used their knowledge of chemistry to advance pharmacology
Rhazes (al-Razi), an Arab physician, became known as the Arab Hippocrates:

Based diagnoses on observations of the signs and symptoms of disease

Developed criteria for distinguishing between smallpox and measles in 910 ad

Suggested blood was the cause of many infectious diseases

Began the use of animal gut as suture material

Arabs began requiring that physicians pass examinations and obtain licenses

Avenzoar, a physician, described the parasite that causes scabies in the 12th century

Average life span was 20 to 35 years

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