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Al-Zahrawi and the Invention of Modern Surgery: Surgical Instruments, Operative Medicine, and the Physician Who Taught Europe to Heal

Al-Zahrawi and the Invention of Modern Surgery: Surgical Instruments, Operative Medicine, and the Physician Who Taught Europe to Heal

Turnage, Clayton Louis

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Series: Before the Renaissance: Persia, Islam, and the Hidden Origins of Western Genius, Book 20

Historical FiguresSports GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern History

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ISBN13: 9798186783480
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Before modern surgery became a science of sterile rooms, anesthesia, and precision instruments, it was a dangerous art practiced at the edge of pain, blood, and uncertainty.

In the brilliant medical world of al-Andalus, one physician helped change that forever.

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, known to Latin Europe as Albucasis, was one of the most influential surgeons in history. His monumental medical encyclopedia, Al-Tasrif, transformed operative medicine by describing surgical procedures, illustrating instruments, warning against reckless practice, and teaching future physicians that surgery required not only courage, but judgment.

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