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Eleven hundred years ago, a physician in Baghdad recorded every patient and compared two groups to test a treatment. The twenty-seventh book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of Abu Bakr ar-Razi: hospital director, author of al-Hawi, the man who distinguished smallpox from measles, and physician to the poor. “And when I am ill, it is He who cures me.”
“And when I am ill, it is He who cures me.”
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The story of Abu Bakr ar-Razi — verses 26:80 and 5:32, two authentic Hadith with linked chains, a timeline, a chart comparing two groups of patients, history notes marked separately, and a table of popular stories.