Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese is a novel of tremendous pain and healing. The title in itself gives readers the opportunity to ponder the true meaning of the “Medicine”, and to come to the realization that the author is not talking about medicine in solely the physical sense of the word. Wagamese also brings the perspective of a journey into the title through the use of the verb “Walk”. After analysing the true meaning of the title, readers can begin to look at how the medicine is working to counteract the predominant poisons within the novel, alcohol and sorrow. Through the use of storytelling along the journey into the backcountry both Eldon, and his son, Frank, are given the opportunity to finally come to terms with their pasts, and in doing so are able to move forwards with their individual lives. By using the word “medicine” in the title of the book Wagamese invites readers to think critically about the word’s true meaning. Typically the first thing that comes to mind when people think about medicine is a physical definition. They think of something they must ingest in order to heal on a physical level. While there are some references to this in the novel, “Ain’t no medicine I know can help him perfect. But I made this up for my own father when he was near the end. It’ll soothe him when it counts” (104), for the most part medicine is used as a figurative term for storytelling. Storytelling is an important medium in Medicine Walk which allows the characters in the book…

The Medical Renaissance: The Cardiovascular System Medical care today is something whose history and presence we take for granted. It is sterile, highly regulated, and only exercised by trained, experienced professionals. However, before and during the Middle Ages, medical care was almost nonexistent—due in large part to our lack of knowledge, or lack of correct knowledge, of how the human body functioned. Almost all of our understandings of the human body had been from Galen in Ancient…

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a book written by William Harvey in 1628. The work was written in England. William Harvey studying the movement of the blood and the heart through observation on an animals. He compares the heart of an animal to the sun of their microcosm. Harvey outlines that the arteries and the veins contain the same blood in animals, and not blood from two separate sources as assumed by Galen. The document was written in 1628. It was written to Prince…

and ideas that have been formed and developed throughout time. This paper focuses on the contributions made by Islamic mathematician Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi to the difference subjects of algebra, geometry and trigonometry. Ideas discovered by Al-Khwarizmi are discussed as well as other concepts that serve as proof of his understanding of various complex ideas we use nowadays. These concepts include simplifying equations, completing the square and trigonometric tables. Key-Words: - Islam,…

Since the 2011 Bahrain uprising, civilian treatment has declined with the increase of censorship by the government and the widening of the divide between the shia and sunni Muslims. King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has been head of the state since 1999 and his family has been ruling since 1783. King Khalifa rules over a majority of shias, while he himself is part of the minority of sunnis. This partition has widened with the shias claiming they are discriminated on fronts such as healthcare,…

muslims built the first medical building in 872. They named it Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, and it was free for any muslim who needed to be cared for. They spread hospitals throughout…