We can credit the Islamic Empire with being a highly advanced system which well served the health needs of the vast majority of its urban populace throughout this far flung empire for the better part of 5 centuries.  In terms of Western medicine, the Islamic Empire deserves high praise for both its role as a transmitter of the ancient Greco‑Roman medical texts, as well as for the innovative advances in medical diagnosis, hospital construction and administration, and in the fields of pharmacy and pharmacology.  While Europe was basically in the medical Dark Ages, Islamic medical science was the shinning light of medicine, from the 7th through the 12th centuries AD.

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