DISCOVERIES & INVENTIONS BY MUSLIMS 5

41. The first person to realize that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham.

42. Al-Razi was the first to realize that fever is a natural defense mechanism, the body's way of fighting disease.

43. Ibn al-Nafis discovered that the muscle behind the eyeball does not support the ophthalmic nerve and that the optic nerves transect but do not get in touch with each other.

44. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened "Mahomeds Indian Vapour Baths" on Brighton seafront in 1759 A.D. and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.

45. The first psychiatric hospitals and insane asylums were built in the Islamic world as early as the 8th century. The first psychiatric hospitals were built by Arab Muslims in Baghdad in 705 A.D., Fes in the early 8th century, and Cairo in 800 A.D.

46. An Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. This is how coffee was discovered.

47. The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed in to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary actions.

48. In epidemiology, Muslim physicians were responsible for the discovery of infections disease and the immune system, and early hypotheses related to microbiology.

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