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  Wikipedia: Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi
Rhazes is known to have experimented more precisely by methods of distillation and extraction.
Rhazes discovered sulfuric acid and influenced other Islamic alchemists of the time such as Geber to work on mineral acids.
Rhazes was a student of Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, not Jabir Ibn Hayyan.
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 Al-Razi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is acknowledged by the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911), which states: "The most trustworthy statements as to the early existence of the disease are found in an account by the 9th-century Arabian physician Rhazes, by whom its symptoms were clearly described, its pathology explained by a humoral or fermentation theory, and directions given for its treatment.".
Rhazes contributed to the early practice of pharmacy by compiling texts, but also in various other ways.
Rhazes is known to have perfected methods of distillation and extraction.
www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Rhazes   (5879 words)

  
 Rhazes: The Thinking Western Physician
Rhazes’ focus in the field was as expansive as the maladies which he had encountered in his patients.
Rhazes was a staunch foe of fanaticism and authoritarianism, as manifested by his outright opposition to all forms of mystical revelation and “insight”.
Rhazes believed ideological discourse and disagreement to be the most fruitful for an atmosphere of learning and progress, as they encouraged critical analysis and a reliance on no authority beyond that of one’s rational mind.
usabig.com /autonomist/articles6/rhazes.html   (1686 words)

  
 Chapter 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The author was one of the outstanding physicians of the period, Abu Baler Muhammad ibn-Zakariyya al-Razi, known as Rhazes.
Rhazes was born in the Persian city of Rai about A.D. As a young man he appears to have devoted himself mainly to music, physics, and alchemy.
Of these, Rhazes is considered the most authoritative because of his inventiveness and keen powers of observation.
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Rhazes' dates are not precisely known: some scholars such as William H. Brock give 850 to c.
Of course it would be incorrect to view even Rhazes' chemistry as anything approximating our own; any review of the writings of Paracelsus (1493-1541) on the subject centuries later show how far scientific chemistry had to go to liberate itself from mystery and superstition.
Also, Rhazes developed apparatus used in apothecaries up through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as mortars and pestles, flasks, spatulas, beakers, phials, and glass vessels.
www.uab.edu /reynolds/rhazes_pharm.htm   (472 words)

  
 Inexpensive Web Hosting Services in India - Rhazes Technologies
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But Chaucer's use is different: Rhazes is attached to the Physician - a part of the Physician's very being - the portrait of a man who was also grounded in "surgerye." Because we are expected to understand the allusion, it is in the contemporary surgical manuals that we may find out what the Physician knew.
Rhazes is generally quoted first on a physician's appearance, obviously working from the theory that a better-looking doctor would be a better doctor.
Rhazes is quoted on joint pain, on gout, and on severe "opthalmia," where the eyes are red and burning but there is no swelling.
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 Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi : Rhazes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although he has been regarded to as Razi in the current text, his actual Latin name was Rhazes.
Progress, in the view of all these men, isn't to be obstructed by a jumble of haphazard and contradictory relativistic assertions which result in metaphysical hodge-podge instead of a sturdy intellectual base.
Rhazes is known to be the most free-thinking of Islamic philosophers, since he was well-trained in the Greek sciences.
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 The Tenth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was sent as part of a covert CIA mission to the experimental town Springdale, where amazing discoveries in cancer research had been unlocked through the incredible genius of Rhazes Darkk.
Rhazes Darkk had crash landed on Earth in the 1960's from a distant planet, carrying the 10 essential life-generating elements that would guarantee his extinct alien race's survival.
Esperanza turns out to be a hybrid experiment of Rhazes Darkk while she was still a fetus has a special connection with Victor, who in monster form is known as the "Tenth."
www.internationalhero.co.uk /t/tenth.htm   (320 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rhazes, also known as Ibn-Zakariya, al-Razi or Razi, was born in Rayy, Persia (now Iran) and was well known for his contributions to Islamic medicine.
Rhazes was a Persian physician, philosopher and religious critic.
In the field of alchemy, Rhazes' greatest work was an alchemical study on an ethical treatise entitled, The Spiritual Physick of Rhazes.
www.upei.ca /~xliu/multi-culture/rhazes.htm?index=259   (298 words)

  
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Al-Razi (Latin: Rhazes 865-925 A.D.) was born at Rayy (Persia).
Rhazes’ renown rests primarily on the voluminous and comprehensive Kitab al-Hawi fi al-tibb (The Comprehensive Book on Medicine) that has become known in Latin under the title “Continens Medicinae”.3 In it, he included extracts from earlier authors regarding diseases and therapy and also documented his own clinical cases.
Rhazes, in his pragmatic clinical approach, advocated appropriate nutrition in preference to drugs in treatment.
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 Saudi Aramco World : Golden Age Of Muslim Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rhazes was followed by the brightest star of all—Avicenna.
Despite the brilliance of Rhazes and Avicenna, surgery remained suspect until Albucasis, "Islam's greatest surgeon," raised its stature.
Even today the term "Arabian medicine" means cure by natural methods, and as far back as Rhazes the Arabs be lieved that no other remedy should be prescribed when a physician could heal through diet.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196205/golden.age.of.muslim.medicine.htm   (493 words)

  
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Rhazes is supposed to have written 237 books, of which only 36 have survived.
Rhazes urged use of cold water in inflammatory fever, and insisted that treatment for fever be based upon its causation.
Rhazes (circa 865-925 A.D.), Persian-born physician who wrote extensively in Arabic, is pictured at the bedside of a young patient afflicted with measles.
dodd.cmcvellore.ac.in /hom/09%20-%20Rhazes.html   (1672 words)

  
 Rhazes
854-925 or 935), better known as Rhazes, was a leading figure in the field of medicine, ranking with Hippocrates and Galen as one of the founders of clinical medicine.
A true follower of the Hippocratic school in describing disease and giving a prognosis, Rhazes studied medicine at Baghdad, where he later became hospital director, teacher, and court physician.
The Al-Mansuri, one of Rhazes' many writings, consists of ten parts (books) and is an encyclopedic review of medicine.
www.uab.edu /reynolds/rhazes.html   (296 words)

  
 Darkk World - Character Profiles
Unable to gather the same information that the US did on Rhazes Darkk and his regeneration technology, they created their own self-made, genetically-enhanced, super-powered killer -- one who has taken the form of an innocent school girl, makes her an unlikely foe and even unlikelier hitman.
Those under his rule believe that Rhazes is a man who is teetering on the edge of insanity.
Rhazes Darkk's goal was to reshape the earth into Darkk Earth -- an altered regeneration of life as we know it.
www.fortunecity.com /roswell/divination/80/profileten.htm   (1186 words)

  
 Rhazes Bio: The Online Library of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
During this era the empire was the focal point of learning in the known world, and Rhazes was the beneficiary of rulers committed to supporting science and medicine.
Rhazes was well known in Europe, and Chaucer referred to him as one of the fifteen great sources of knowledge.
Rhazes' influence stemmed chiefly from his medical works, which were important source books for Western physicians until the rise of modern medicine in the nineteenth century.
oll.libertyfund.org /Intros/Authors/Medieval/Rhazes.html   (218 words)

  
 Avicenna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Along with Rhazes, Ibn Nafis, Al-Zahra and Al-Ibadi, he is considered an important compiler of Early Muslim medicine.
His work is not essentially different from that of his predecessors Rhazes and Au; all present the doctrine of Galen, and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of Aristotle.
But the Canon of Avicenna is distinguished from the Al-Hawi (Continens) or Summary of Rhazes by its greater method, due perhaps to the logical studies of the former, and entitling him to his surname Of Prince of the Physicians.
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 Timeline: Rhazes (Abu Bakr Muhammad Bin Zakariya Ar-Razi), c. 860–932 CE - MedHunters
Rhazes, a Persian, born near modern-day Tehran, Iran, made contributions not only to the field of medicine but also to philosophy and chemistry/alchemy.
Rhazes received his medical education in Baghdad, but his first in-charge placement was at a Royal Hospital in Ray (also Rayy and Rai), Iran.
Though he spoke against charlatans, Rhazes also was quick to say that doctors didn't know everything and should always keep up with the latest information and study medical books.
www.medhunters.com /articles/timelineRhazes.html   (445 words)

  
 The Tenth Character Bios
Rhazes Darkk's goal was to reshape, the Earth into Darkk Earth--an altered regeneration of life as we know it.
He serves Rhazes Darkk without Question, but a servant is all he will ever be.
Unable to gather the same information the US did on Rhazes Darkk and his regeneration technology, they created their own self made, genetically enhanced superpowered killer.
www.angelfire.com /ok/xpiredsoul/bios.html   (777 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Moving on is just not an option, when the moving in question happens to be backwards on a steep slope.
One, many of the "entitlement" programs you hate were created to address big problems in the country's past, specifically from the Industrial Age and onwards.
The problem right there is that you and so many others look for "honest and heartfelt" speeches, emotional response...this has nothing to do with prudent leadership, and everything to do with idolization.
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 The influence of Ibn Sina and Razi
The popularity of the Arabs was thus established and among them Rhazes and Avicenna were considered preeminent.
So great was their popularity and so long did it endure that we find Montagna, Gentile da Fabriano and other artists decorating the edge of the Madonna's robe with Arabic lettering and two Arab doctors, Cosmas and Damian, raised to the altars of the Church.
From the twelfth to the seventeenth century Rhazes and Avicenna were held superior even to Hippocrates and Galen.
www.iranian.com /Feb97/History/Avicenna/Avicenna.shtml   (1477 words)

  
 Frogmore Community College | Arab Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If the meat did rot then he said the air was the cause of the rotting, if it didn’t rot the air was of good quality.
Rhazes taught students to observe symptoms of patients, by observation he managed to find out the difference between smallpox and measles.
Rhazes was a traveller; he travelled to India, North Africa and Egypt to gather information on medicine.
www.frogmorecollege.hants.sch.uk /folders/medic/arab/page_1.htm   (1164 words)

  
 Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds -- Chapter 35   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At the age of fourteen he first became enamoured of the science of alchymy, and read the Arabian authors in their own language.
At the end of that time, he found that he had spent no less than eight hundred crowns upon his experiment, and had got nothing but fire and smoke for his pains.
He studied him assiduously for two years; and, being young, rich, and credulous, was beset by all the chymists of the town, who kindly assisted him in spending his money.
www.litrix.com /madraven/madne035.htm   (2019 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: History of Medicine
The most valuable of the thirty-six productions of Rhazes which have come down to us is "De variolis et morbillis", a book based upon personal experience.
Students of other authors were Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara (1462-1536; Galen, Mesue), the Paduan professor Giovanni Battista de Monte (Montanus, 1498-1552; Galen, Rhazes, Avicenna), and the Englishmen Thomas Linacre (1461-1524), and John Kaye (1506-73), Wilhelm Copus, town physician of Basle (1471-1521), and Theodore Zwinger of Switzerland (1533-88), all students of Galen.
by Rhazes for smallpox, by Edward Baynard in 1555 against the plague by John Floyer (1649-1734) for mania, and by several others.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10122a.htm   (17358 words)

  
 Biography: Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakareya Al Razi (Rhazes) أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي | The ...
Biography: Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakareya Al Razi (Rhazes) أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي
Amazingly, his treatise on measles and smallpox was published in Arabic and Latin in London 1766, as "Ar-Razi, Muhammad Ibn-Zakariya: Rhazes De Variolis Et Morbilis / cura et impensis Iohannis Channing.
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 A Brief History of Blind Physicians - Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions - Western University of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rhazes (Ar-Razii) -- circa 860 - 932 A.D. Sometimes referred to as the "Galen of the Arabians," Rhazes was one of the great physicians of the Medieval Ages.
He was physician to the Royal Court, chief of Baghdad's main hospital and the author of more than 200 medical treatises.
Rhazes suffered failing eyesight for several years, and though he eventually lost all vision he continued to provide medical consultations and lecture to pupils.
www.westernu.edu /cdihp/briefhistory.xml   (1194 words)

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