He gave detailed descriptions of for using probes, surgical knives, scalples, and hooks. He introduced over 200 surgical tools, a staggering number by all standards. 4 The last chapter of his comprehensive book, named “On Surgery”, was dedicated to surgical instruments. 2, 3 He is credited with performance of the first thyroidectomy. Page from a 1531 Latin translation by Peter Argellata of Al Zahrawi’s treatise on surgical and medical instruments.Īl Zahrawi is considered the father of operative surgery. Some of the procedures and techniques detailed in these chapters include the following: In Al-Tasreef, three chapters were devoted to surgery. In addition to sections on medicine and surgery, there were sections on midwifery, pharmacology, therapeutics, dietitics, psychotherapy, weighs and measures, and medical chemistry. The thirty volumes of the medical encyclopedia covered various aspects of medical knowledge. It was a summation of about fifty years of medical education, training, practice and experience. After a long and distinguished medical career, he died in 1013 AD at the age of 77.Īround the year 1000 AD, he wrote his famous book “ Al Tasreef Liman ‘Ajaz ‘Aan Al-Taleef”, (The Clearance of Medical Science For Those Who Can Not Compile It). He served as the court physician to Caliph Al-Hakam-II, at a period considered as the “Golden Age” of Arab Spain when natural and mathematical sciences reached their peak. Al-Zahrawi traveled rarely, and spent most of his life in his hometown as a practicing physician-pharmacist-surgeon. His ancestors were from the Al Ansar tribes of Al Madina Al Munawwarah who came from the Arabian peninsula with the Muslim armies which conquered and lived in Spain. Abu Qasim Khalaf Ibn Abbas Al Zahrawi, known in the West as Albucasis or Zahravius, was born in 936 AD in Al-Zahra’, a suburb, six miles northwest of Cordoba, the capital of Muslim Spain (Al-Andalus).
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