Abu Bakr al-Razi, Physician of Rayy and Baghdad
ScholarPhysician of Rayy and Baghdad
Abu Bakr al-Raziأبو بكر الرازي
Approximate dateRayy
A physician who first told smallpox from measles and ran the hospitals of Rayy and Baghdad.
It is said that he chose the site of a Baghdad hospital by hanging meat in different districts and seeing where it rotted slowest. His al-Hawi gathered all the medicine he knew with his own case notes, and his treatise on smallpox and measles was used in Europe for centuries.
What grew out of it?
His clinical notes are an early model of the medical case record.
Who else is linked?
Tehran (and Rayy)Fakhr al-Din al-RaziAbbasid CaliphateSamanids
Who lived at the same time?
Al-MutadidIsmail ibn AhmadAbdallah ibn MuhammadAl-MundhirAl-MuktafiAl-MutamidAhmad ibn TulunAl-Muqtadir
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