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The doctor who kept asking why
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Ages 7–9Al-Razi was a physician who challenged some of the medical ideas of the ancient writer Galen.
Lost Islamic History describes al-Razi treating poor patients without charging them in Baghdad.
Al-Razi recorded laboratory experiments, including distillation and crystallization.
He designed and described laboratory instruments and explained how they were used.
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