Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Babylon in the third millennium B.C. Traditional ...

Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine, which included details on Greek, Indian and Muslim medicine was translated ... Humorism was a theory put forward by the ancient Egyptians, and then formally ...

Hippocrates's methods were adopted by doctors across Europe and the Islamic world long after his death. An engraving of the doctor, Galen. He was Greek by birth but practiced medicine in Ancient Rome.