Scientific and medicine contributions:
• Arabic numerals (adapted from India), including zero
• Algebra
• Expansion of geographic knowledge
• Differentiate between smallpox and measles
• Diagnose the plague, diphtheria, leprosy, rabies, baker’s cyst, diabetes, gout and haemophilia
• Muslim surgeons were also pioneers in performing amputations and cauterizations
• discovered the circulation of blood, the use of animal gut for sutures and the use of alcohol as an antiseptic
