Muslims made their most important contributions in the medicine field. They learned a lot from the ancient Greeks, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians and improved this earlier knowledge and also translated Greek medical writing into aridic to help them expand their knowledge. They devoted lots of their time studing and researching about medicine and teaching soon to be doctors and scientists. Muslims had many advances in medicine. They were givin the first hospitals that were established so that they could treat their patients and by the 10th century Baghdad had at least five in their area. They could treat anyone who needed treatment, because the government paid all the medical expenses. They also had caravans to transported medical care to the people that lived in remote villages. The hospitals had many different medicines to treat different pacients and Pharmacists made hundreds of medications. Some to help take the pain away or put pacients to sleep before operations and to do that they would use drugs such as opium and hemlock. But, surgeons only preformed delicate operations as a last option. Because of the Muslim studies and research it has helped other doctors and researches create cures and continue working on different medicines. Like how Europeans later used the Muslim medician work and knowledge to teach their students. Medicine had a very long impact on scientific history because this knowledge was used to help improve the medical practices and was able to help create cures for todays deseases.
Mathmatics
Mathmatic studies were greatly advanced by Muslims and based their work from ideas from India and classical Greece. The scolars in Baghdad used important text from India and Greece and translated them into Aribic to help improve their studies and knowledge. But, they didnt just take them they also added their own contributions after adapting what they learned. One of these scolars was the "the father of algebra", Al-Khwarizmi, who worked in the house of wisdom for nine centuries. And the word algebra actualy comes from one of the books he wrote. Algebra is used to find unknown numbers in an equation. Al-Khwarizmi's algebra book was later translated into Latin and is one of the most important books mathmatics book in European universities. Another one of Al-khwarizmi's texts helped spread Aribic numerals in Europe but, this wouldn't have been able to happen if it wasn't for Indian scholars. Muslims learned their way of writing numbers, fraction, and decimals from the Indian scholars. This also helped with business and trade for Muslims because it made it easier for the people to be able to make calculations and check their work if they need to. But, the Muslims did somthing for the Indians in return by spreading zero, which is an Indian concept. In fact, the word zero comes from an Aribic word that means "somthing empty". Mathmatics had a very long impact on life because it is still a very important part of life, even today. Without numbers we wouldnt be able to express the amount of somthing and it also limits us for a lot of things. Without zero we wouldnt be able to write big numbers or expressing an answer because zero is very important when it comes to calculations. But, even in ancient times people used written symbols for numbers long before anyone thought of using zero.
