Around 910 AD, the Persian physician and philosopher Abu Bakr al-Razi, known in Europe as Rhazes, who ran hospitals in Rayy and Baghdad, wrote a short treatise on smallpox and measles, Kitab al-Judari wa al-Hasba, the first clear clinical description of the two diseases and the first to show that they are separate. He described the symptoms, such as fever, back pain, and the course of the rash, and gave advice on treatment and on the immunity that survivors gain. His encyclopaedia of medicine, al-Hawi, and his Latin-translated works were standard textbooks in European universities for centuries.
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- from 907 CE to 960 CEFive Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
- from 909 CE to 1171Fatimid Caliphate
- 2 September 909 CEConstruction of Cluny Abbey
- from 910 CE to 1833Kingdom of Leon
- c. 910sAl-Razi distinguishes smallpox from measles
- from 913 CE to 927 CEByzantine–Bulgarian War of 913–927
- from 916 CE to 1125Liao dynasty
- from 918 CE to 1392Goryeo
- from 927 CE to 1707Kingdom of England
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