Tools And Other Sharp Edged Devices - 1607 Words

Interdiction: In prehistoric times, flint tools and other sharp-edged devices have been used to perform various surgical operations. Circumcision and other ritual operations were then performed with similar instruments. It seems that in the Neolithic time sawing stone and bone were used to perform amputations. Almost all major operations were carried out by the ancient Hindus nearly a thousand years before the advent of Greek medicine. Knowledge of the use of soporific options to relieve pain caused by surgery can be traced to ancient times. Then there came the Greeks and Romans first era in which they practiced surgery with great skill and with such clean the surgical wound infection and other was relatively rare, perhaps because of†¦show more content†¦So, they defend that surgery is a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and the excision and repair of pathological conditions by means of operative procedures. In the Muslim scientist era, they improve d the science of medication and they put the principles and the basic that still used as references until now. So, there were notable surgeons at medieval who contribution to the progress of surgery. In short, Al-Zahrawi was one of the greatest surgeons of medieval Islam who had found the basic of the surgery s processes. Background of Al-Zahrawi: Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi was also known in Western literature as Albucasis, and Abulcasis Bucasis. He was an Andalusian physician who lived in the 930-1013 period and was born and raised in Al-Zahra , a suburb of the city of Qurttoba (Cordova) in Andalusia (now Spain). It is reported that the family tree was from Al-Ansar Al-Madina Al-Monawara (now in Saudi Arabia). So Abu Al-Qasim is considered one of the greatest physicians of the Muslim world who have excelled in various and different fields of medicine, such as surgery, anatomy, pharmacology and pediatrics. also, he is considered the greatest surgeon in the Islamic medical tradition that complete medical texts, combining Middle Eastern and classical Greco-Roman teachings, shaped European surgical