The Growth of Medicine From the Earliest Times to About 1800
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The great wealth accumulated in Damascus, the large num- ber of hospitals which were located in the city, and the attractiveness of the town as a place of residence undoubt- edly had much to do with the fact that it attained at this period so great popularity as a centre of medical activity. Spain. — During the tenth century of the present era the Moslem reign in Spain flourished greatly under the two enlightened rulers of the Ommiade Dynasty — Abdur- rahman Ennasser and Hakem, and medicine sha...red fully in this prosperity. During Abdurrahman's reign the Emperor Eomanus at Constantinople sent an embassy to Cordova in Spain, and among the gifts which they took with them for the Prince, was a copy of the treatise of Dioscorides in the original Greek, illustrated by marvel- ously beautiful paintings of the different medicinal plants. But there was nobody in Cordova at that time who could read Greek. Accordingly, Abdurrahman begged the Emperor to send him a man who was familiar with both the Greek and the Latin tongues, and it was in answer to this request that the monk Nicholas was sent to Cordova (951 A.
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