Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes) · Science
In <em>Doubts About Galen</em> (<em>Shukuk ala Jalinus</em>), al-Razi dared to correct the supreme authority of medicine - not from arrogance but from principle: reverence for the ancients must yield to observation, and his own clinical findings contradicted Galen’s theory.
You learned that al-Razi’s Shukuk ala Jalinus respectfully but firmly challenged Galen, the towering authority of medicine, on the principle that observation must outrank reverence, that his own clinical observations (for instance of fever) contradicted Galenic claims, and that honestly criticizing one’s m…
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