IBNU NAFIS

Al-Din Abu Al-Hasan Ali Ibn Abi Al-Hazm Al-Qarshi Al-Damashqi known as Ibnu

Nafis. He has another call, The Second Avicenna. Ibnu Nafis was born in 1213 in

Damascus. He died at 11 Dzulqaidah in 678 H (December 17, 1288). After

completing basic education, Ibnu Nafis took medical education at the Medical

College Hospital. The teacher was Muthaltab Al-Din Abd Al-Rahim. In 1236,

after completing his education in medicine and Islamic Law, Ibnu Nafis went to

Cairo, Egypt. There he studied at An-Nassiri Hospital. Because of his brilliant

achivements, he was appointed as director of the hospital. As a doctor, Ibnu

Nafis was never satisfied with the medical sciense he had. He continued to

enrich his knowledge through various observation. According to Ibnu Nafis,

besides doing need. The discovery of Ibnu Nafis is the

success of finding a small blood circulation(pulmonary

circulation) which functions as a place for blood to flow

from the liver to the two lungs to remove carbon

dioxide and replace it with oxygen. Blood then flows

back to the liver to channel it to all organs of the body.

Ibnu Nafis mentions that blood circulation to the liver is carried out through

the liver and not in the right heart. Ibnu Nafis confirmed that blood flows from

the heart to the lungs to get air not to feed the lungs. Ibnu Nafis concluded

that the blood vessels in the two lungs only contain blood. Ibnu Nafis rejects

any holes on the dividing wall between the available parts of the heart. Ibnu

Nafis was the person who first discovered the way blood in the hair vessels

(Capillaries), which is a very high blood reservoir and the walls are very soft.