Monday, 17 November 2014

Modern Surgery tools who invented them?

Who was the inventer of the modern Surgical Tools?
You will know here the founder of the
Surgical tools:-
Modern Surgical Tools
Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas
Al-Zahrawi (
936–1013), also known in the
West as Abulcasis, was an Arab physician 
who lived in Al-Andalus. He is considered
the greatest medieval surgeon to have
appeared from the Islamic World,
and has been described by some
 as the father of modern surgery.
His greatest contribution to medicine is 
the Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume 
encyclopedia of medical practices.
His pioneering contributions to the field of
surgical procedures and instruments had
an enormous impact in the East and West
well into the modern period, where some
of his discoveries are still applied in
medicine to this day.
Al-Tasrif was later translated into Latin 
by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century, 
and illustrated. For perhaps five centuries 
during the European Middle Ages,
it was the primary source for European 
medical knowledge, and served as a 
reference for doctors and surgeons.
Abu Al-Qasim's al-Tasrif described both 
what would later became known 
as "Kocher's method" for treating a 
dislocated shoulder and
 "Walcher position" in obstetrics. 
Al-Tasrif described how to ligature blood 
vessels almost 600 years before 
Ambroise ParĂ©, and was the first 
recorded book to document several 
dental devices and explain the hereditary
nature of haemophilia.
He was also the first to describe a 
surgical procedure for ligating the 
temporal artery for migraine, also
 almost 600 years before Pare 
recorded that he had ligated his own
temporal artery for headache that 
conforms to current descriptions of migraine.
Abu al-Qasim also described the use 
of forceps in vaginal deliveries. He 
introduced over 200 surgical instruments.
Many of these instruments were never 
used before by any previous surgeons.
 Hamidan, for example, listed at least 
twenty six innovative surgical instruments 
that Abulcasis introduced.
His use of catgut for internal stitching 
is still practised in modern surgery. 
The catgut appears to be the only 
natural substance capable of dissolving 
and is acceptable by the body. 
Abu al-Qasim also invented the forceps 
for extracting a dead fetus, 
as illustrated in the Al-Tasrif.
In the Photo:
(A): Illustrations of surgical instruments
 from a 13th-century Arabic copy
 of al-Zahrawi’s On Surgery.
(B): Al-Zahrawi’s annotated illustrations 
of surgical instruments were circulating in 
Europe in Latin translation in the 14th century.


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