NAMA: ASFA FATINI BINTI MD ZURAIDI

NO MATRIK: A20SC0028

UHIT 2302 SECTION 21

During this time, scholars in the Islamic world made huge contributions to medicine, and
created a body of knowledge that was tremendously important and influential around the
world for many hundreds of years. It is about exploring state-of-the-art biomedical science
and uncovering the contribution made to the field by the scholars of the Golden Age. It was
during the Islamic Golden Age that medicine started to be treated as a true science with
emphasis on empirical evidence and repeatable procedures. During that time, medical books
were written that became standard texts throughout the world for many hundreds of years. It
is about to see how the ideas of the scholars from the medieval Islamic world compare to our
modern medicine. The hospital’s neonatal unit deals with premature and newborn babies who
are suffering from a variety of conditions. At this hospital, they’re carrying out pioneering
research to improve the treatment of babies born with neonatal encephalopathy. That is,
babies born with serious neurological damage because of a problem with oxygen or blood
supply in the womb. The gold standard of treatment is putting these babies on a cooling
mattress and limit the potential ongoing damage that could ensue the brain. However, it does
not really provide an appropriate success rate world wide. To improve the reliability of their
research, the hospital’s using what we call a “control group”. Some of the babies receive
magnesium sulfate. Whereas a separate group, the control group, don’t receive it. This allows
the hospital to compare fairly the effects of the treatment with and without drug. The idea of a
control group is actually goes all the way over a thousand years to a Persian physician by the
name of Ar-Razi who built the first hospital in Baghdad who was looking into the causes and
treatment of meningitis and he had not only his sample of patients, but he had a control group
to which he wasn’t administering the treatment, in the case it was bloodletting, which we
know isn’t the way you treat meningitis. For centuries, the accepted view had been that of the
renowned Greek physician Galen. Galen said that blood passes directly between the right and
left ventricles of the heart through tiny holes in the sceptum, the dividing wall that separates
them. Ibn Al-Nafis was the first to challenge Galen’s view; he established that there weren’t
any holes, so there had to be another way to pass from right to left. Medicinal herbs like
lavender is good for antibacterial and mugwort is good for those who has cold. These herbs
has been known for a long time since golden ages. Nigella sativa is a small black seeds is for
anti-toxic and Ibn Sina even mentioned that it will against bites like snake bite. During
golden ages, they used the paper which it was made out of plants that they chemically
processed. When the caliphate expanded and reached China, they learnt from them how to
make paper out trees. Genetic technology is involving rapidly. The lab recently install the
most advance piece of equipment for DNA sequencing. The original human was sequence for
about 10 years but now they can sequence the human within six to ten days with this
technology.