[blam]

Hmmmm, were they civilized at one time?

[SunkenCiv]

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[calex59]

Yeah, I understand they were on of the first cultures to advocate assisted suicide, as in decapitation, whether you wanted it or not! Much of the BS about how great Islam was at one time is just that, BS. They took what they learned from other people and used it and tried to pass it off as their own. Most of modern day medicine stems from the Greeks, not Islam.

What have they ever really accomplished in their history except to conquer a good bit of asia back in the day and kill off a lot of unbelievers?

Today they are a backward lot, living in 750 AD, killing off their women for just about any reason and passing it off as an "honor" killing, making slaves of their women, killing off infidels when they can get away with it and trying to sew terror around the world, raping women with impunity and then punishing the women for it.

These are just some of their barbaric practices, the ones who don't practice all of these acts, condone them and don't condemn it, therefore they must share in the blame for these despicable acts.

[Ramius]

The very first hospitals were built around AD800 in Baghdad

Uh... Galen of Rome was operating hospitals in the 2nd century AD.

[engrpat]

Once again Islam lies:

Romans can greatly thank the Hellenistic Greeks and the Asians for their work in the medical field. The Romans followed up the scientific methods the Greeks and Asians used in their development of medicine. As Armour clearly notes, prior to this time, Romans went without an official medical profession for over 600 years. The head of the family would treat his family with folk remedies and sacrificial rites to the appropriate god. It wasn't until the Greeks began to arrive in Rome that medicine changed in Roman society. The medicine of ancient Rome helped set a standard and basis for today's medicine through Rome's conquest of Europe under Caesar (38).

The most famous doctor of ancient Rome was Galen. Some of Galen's contributions were:

* books on human anatomy, which were used up until the early eighteenth centuries

* taking one's pulse

* bloodletting

For more information go to Medicine of Ancient Rome.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

To perhaps pour cold water on this article, islam didn’t have the first “hospitals”. The Romans had military hospitals associated with most major posts (although these were not hospitals in the modern sense of the word, they did treat non military personnel in the late Roman Empire). This fact is well documented. Constantine (c274-337) made Christanity the empire’s religion in 324 AD. Shortly thereafter Christians set up hospitals through out the empire.
Of course none of these hospitals (prior to knowing that germs caused diseases), were very similar to a modern hospital.