What did Al-Kindi's work in medicine and mathematics create?
A Scale to Gauge Medication Effectiveness
A New Surgical Technique
A New Disease Classification
A Mathematical Cure for Diseases
Answer
Al-Kindi was a Muslim polymath who made significant contributions to the fields of mathematics, astronomy, optics, music, philosophy, and medicine. In medicine, he developed a scale to gauge the effectiveness of medications. The scale was based on the principles of humorism, which held that the body is composed of four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
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