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10.08.2022 | Focus - Institution and Surgeons
Abu Al Qasim Al Zahrawi—the Father of Operative Surgery
Erschienen in: Indian Journal of Surgery | Ausgabe 4/2023
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Al-Zahrawi was one of the greatest scientists of human history in the field of surgery who was the first to use the scalpel in surgery. Born way ahead of his time, many of his innovations went unrecognised at his time but later came back in clinical medicine again under different modern day scientists. He was the first to use Catgut suture and first to describe tonsillectomy, tracheostomy, removal of nasal polyp, use of cauterization for skin tumours, application of ligature to stop bleeding, removal of urinary bladder calculi and setting the dislocated bones and fractures. He was first to devise artificial denture and suggest treatment of haemophilia. Apart from discovery of 200 surgical tools, he was also the first person in the history of medicine to write the illustrated medical encyclopaedia Al-Tasrif. He was probably the only “Father of Operative Surgery”.