Abstract
On December 9, 1979, the World Health Organization announced the global eradication of smallpox. Because of the devastation caused by the disease, for centuries physicians focused their attention on ways to prevent it, the first step of which involved understanding its nature. The individual who is credited with being the first to differentiate smallpox from measles was Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (864-925 AD). Also known in the Latin West as Rhazes, this imminent medieval physician has been lauded as “the greatest physician of Islam and the Medieval Ages” and even “perhaps the greatest clinician of all times.” Numerous “firsts” in medical research and clinical care are attributed to him, and his writings alone set him apart. This article presents a brief life of the leading figure in the field of medieval medicine. Copyright © 2001 by W.B. Saunders Company
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