Resources for Islamic practical medicine of the middle ages?

For a Fantasy novel I have kept this essay close-by, as I'm basing the medical practise of the order which gives the MC a place to stay on medieval Islamic medicine.

http://www.webmedcentral.com/wmcpdf/Article_WMC003549.pdf

As I understand it, Islamic medicine of the time were far, far ahead of European medicine, particularly when it came to hygiene and techniques.

In fact, modern European medicine comes in part or in whole from the Islamic tradition after the interactions and the reconquista of the Iberian peninsula when much of the literature of Galen and Avicenna came into the hands of the Christian Iberians.

But what I haven't been able to find, at least not in English, is a description of the practicalities of Islamic medicine. Like, how did they treat wounds? What were their pre- and after-care like?

Do I have to read Avicenna myself, or is there a resource you know of that in a simple drool-proof language could describe these things?

Thank you!

Thanks all.

TheNighSwan said:

Europeans in the middle ages weren't particularly unhygienic, they bathed pretty often; this changed mostly with the transition to the Renaissance, were bathing came to be seen as unhealthy, and not actually without reason: from the 14th century onward to the 18th century, pandemics of bubonic plague struck Europe regularly and repeatedly (Venice saw something like 22 plague outbreaks over the course of less than two centuries); and it so happens that bathing can worsen the symptoms of bubonic plague, and is therefore counter-indicated.

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I was talking about medical hygiene mostly where the Islamic physicians cleaned wounds and had patients in clean wards. They did invent proper hospitals, after all. Instead of stuffing the wounded in straw filled, lice infested dungeons, and putting cow patties and such on wounds.