Mental Healthcare
The Golden Age of Islam was unique in that treatment of mental disorders was carried out in hospitals. Psychiatric hospitals were constructed in Baghdad in 705 and Cairo in 805, and there is evidence to suggest that there was also one such facility in operation Fez during the 8th century.
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