Insights into Avicenna’s Contributions to the Science of Surgery

• Published in: World journal of surgery Vol. 38; no. 8; pp. 2175 - 2179
• Main Authors: Dalfardi, Behnam, Mahmoudi Nezhad, Golnoush Sadat
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01-08-2014; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abdominal Surgery; Anesthesia - history; Avicenna; Cardiac Surgery; Epigastric Abdominal Pain; Gastric Cancer; General Surgery; General Surgery - history; History, Medieval; Medical Encyclopedia; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neurogenic Bladder; Persia; Surgery; Surgical Instruments - history; Surgical Procedures, Operative; Thoracic Surgery; Vascular Surgery; Vesicovaginal Fistula; Persia; Gastric Cancer; Vesicovaginal Fistula; Epigastric Abdominal Pain; Medical Encyclopedia; Neurogenic Bladder
• ISSN: 0364-2313; 1432-2323
• DOI: 10.1007/s00268-014-2477-3

An influential Persian scholar of the Islamic Golden Age of Medicine (from the ninth to the twelfth centuries
ad
), Ibn-e Sina (
ad
980–1037), also known by the Latinized name Avicenna, is best remembered for his contributions to various aspects of medicine, particularly surgery. In fact, the art of surgery was a major focus of his attention and practice, and one to which he devoted several chapters of his main medical encyclopedia,
Al
-
Qanun fi al
-
Tibb
(
The Canon of Medicine
). This article presents a brief review of Avicenna’s life, introduce his textbook of medicine, and present his significant contributions to the science of surgery.