Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
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In the history of medicine, Islamic medicine, also known as "Arabic", "Greco-Arabic" or "Greco-Islamic" medicine – refers to the science of medicine developed in the Islamic Golden Age, and written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization.