"Medicine and medical practices in the Ottoman era
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Most important of all is the hospital part of the Sultan Bayezit II complex in Edirne and the treatment the doctors there were giving people. It was far more advanced than anything in Western Europe, especially where the care given to the insane was concerned Foreign physicians were often employed at the courts of Islamic rulers. But it wasn’t until the 17th century that what was happening in European medicine became known in the Middle East. This was mostly accomplished through the many foreigners who converted to Islam "
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