In the history of medicine, Rufaida Al-Aslamia is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Rufaida Al-Aslamia as Islamic medical and social worker recognized as the first female Muslim nurse.
Rufaida Al-Aslamia was born at Medina in 620.
Much of this period's medical learning passed through the Islamic world, where Greek texts were preserved, corrected and extended.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
