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- Arab astronomers studied the heavens.
- Arab doctors were the first to discover the blood circulates.
- The Arabs gave much to the field of medicine.
- They gave many stars the names they still carry today. They correctly described the eclipses of the sun. They also proved that the moon affects the tides, or the rise and fall of the oceans. The astronomers worked with Arab geographers to determine the size of the earth and the distance around it.
- They were the first to diagnose certain diseases, The Persian Doctor ae-Razi discovered differences between measles and smallpox. Another Persian, Avicenna, was the first to understand that tuberculosis is contagious, or can be passed from person to person.
- Unlike doctors in most countries, Arab doctors had to past a test before they cold practice medicine. The Arabs set up the world's first school of Pharmacy. They also opened the world's first drugstores. They organized medical clinics that traveled all through the empire giving care and medicines to the sick.
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