Introduction

These books elaborately describe and discuss about the good and bad effects of medicines, herbs, their medicinal traits and identification and directions for use. Ibn Betar did intensive travelling to many countries for collecting and arranging the properties of various medicines for his books, which also contain illustrations of all the herbs and medicines. Noted among these books are Medicine, Pharmacology, Chemistry and Physics, Medical Juris Prudence, Anatomy, Physiology, Beauty, Diseases of Men and Women, Midwifery, Paediatrics, Hygiene, Pathology and Diagnosis.

Physicians have compiled different books on these subjects. These physicians have also rendered invaluable services in the field of surgery. Cleaning of wounds, joining or stitching of cut parts of the body and healing of internal wounds of the inner body parts were the subject of their treatment. They invented various medical instruments, apparatus and formulated the rules of sterilisation. It was their idea that a hospital should be situated amidst hygienic environment and fresh air.

During the 7th and 8th century, when the Arabs took prominence on the world map, all the knowledge, art, sciences spread in different languages throughout the world, were translated in Arabic. In this way, Unani Tibb got mixed up in Arab Tibb. Afterwards, when the European countries started dominating, these treasures of knowledge got shifted there. The Europeans not only made this knowledge their hobby but after necessary research work also prescribed them in their syllabus.

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Introduction
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Hamdard and Unani