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visited the Eastern lands of Islam in the second half of the 6th century of the Hijra era, he was much struck by the large number and magnificent equipment of the hospitals which he found there; and any• one who reads the interesting and impressive accounts of these institutions in the Arabic literary sources will readily agree with the Spanish savant's remark that the hospitals of those days constituted one of the chief glories of the Muslim.
When Ibn-Jubayr visited Damascus about five hundred years later, he saw a number of lunatics in the Old Hospital, where they were still in receipt of some sort of medical treatment.
D. , when the second 'Abbasid Caliph, al-Mansur, was afflicted with an illness which baffled his medical advisers, he summoned to attend him Jurjis, the son of Bakhtishii', the chief physician of the hospital at jundi-Shapur : and when the great physician returned after four years' sojourn at Baghdad, he sent his pupil 'Isa b.
At the medical school of jundi-Shapur, the theory and practice of medicine went hand in hand ; it was a teaching institution as well as a hospital, where ·· patients were admitted and treated for their respective ailments.
He also invited several Indian physicians, who translated a number of medical works from Sanskrit into Arabic, including an Indian Pharmacopoeia, · which was introduced in the hospitals of Baghdad.