The Father of Modern Surgery - Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi

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@al-Hasani

You should given the poor chap a Hindu name instead of a Muslim one, it would have spared 3 pages of pure trolling.

 

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The surgery practiced by Abu Al Qasim was much more sophisticated than the so-called texts on primitive level description on how skin of forehead is similar to nose etc.

I have seen this too many times from Indians now. Whenever these is something about science in Islamic World, Indians jump "No, no..we also had this"...

Well, tell me, all other scholars are idiots who don't know this and only Indians know what is right?

Let me clarify one thing.

Islamic World and Islamic Scholars are regarded as the foundation of modern, global world because it was first civilization that created a "global" civilization.

Islamic World established trade networks from Sweden to Indonesia. It brought the knowledge of Indians, Persians, Arabs, Greeks, Romans, Chinese etc at one place and created a "global" knowledge, which did more to advance humanity than any other civilisation at that point.

Today, our science and civilisation is a "global" one...and THAT is why we are so successful. Russian chemists work on German discoveries and pass it on the Americans which use the findings to further the technology. All of this goes back to Islamic World and its influence on humanity.

"Therefore", titles like "Father of Algebra", "Father of surgery" etc etc are given to many Arab/Persian scholars BECAUSE of their works that were derived from all over the world..and which contributed the most. Before Islamic World, people were mainly "regional"....

Foundation of our modern science is "global"---and it has its root in early Islamic Civilisation...and hence you have these titles "Father of this..father of that"...

So Indians, please don't keep embarrassing yourself by saying "oh no, ten thousand years ago..we have this text etc etc"...No, your text wasn't what modern scientific approach is based on...and therefore, it can't be regarded as the "Father" text of any field.

@AUSTERLITZ I know my tone/post is somewhat rhetorical...but were there any other civilisations before who brought the knowledge of all other human civilisations at one place in such magnitude--and gave a standarized langauge to science and commerce?

PS, do you believe that Indians were doing "Brain Surgery" in 600 B.C?! I wonder what exactly is being referred to as "Brain Surgery" here

Suśruta (Sanskrit: सुश्रुत, lit. "well heard") was an ancient Indian physician, known as the main author of the treatise The Compendium of Suśruta (Sanskrit: Suśruta-saṃhitā) (ca. 600 BCE). The Suśruta-saṃhitā, in its extant form, in 184 chapters contains descriptions of 1,120 illnesses, 700 medicinal plants, 64 preparations from mineral sources and 57 preparations based on animal sources. The text discusses surgical techniques of making incisions, probing, extraction of foreign bodies, alkali and thermal cauterization, tooth extraction, excisions, and trocars for draining abscess, draining hydrocele and ascitic fluid, removal of the prostate gland, urethral stricture dilatation, vesicolithotomy, hernia surgery, caesarian section, management of haemorrhoids, fistulae, laparotomy and management of intestinal obstruction, perforated intestines and accidental perforation of the abdomen with protrusion of omentum and the principles of fracture management, viz., traction, manipulation, apposition and stabilization including some measures of rehabilitation and fitting of prosthetic. It enumerates six types of dislocations, twelve varieties of fractures, and classification of the bones and their reaction to the injuries, and gives a classification of eye diseases including cataract surgery. Suśruta has been dubbed "the father of surgery" on account of the extraordinarily accurate and detailed accounts of surgery to be found in the work. He has also been called "the first plastic surgeon

Do you think this guy was ordnary and Basic.?

 

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wait and watch in few yrs "0" will also be discovered by ancient islamic reserchers...

OnTopic:Let's be greatful we have better medical tech. Thanks to early experiments..What a time to be alive.

 

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Suśruta (Sanskrit: सुश्रुत, lit. "well heard") was an ancient Indian physician, known as the main author of the treatise The Compendium of Suśruta (Sanskrit: Suśruta-saṃhitā) (ca. 600 BCE). The Suśruta-saṃhitā, in its extant form, in 184 chapters contains descriptions of 1,120 illnesses, 700 medicinal plants, 64 preparations from mineral sources and 57 preparations based on animal sources. The text discusses surgical techniques of making incisions, probing, extraction of foreign bodies, alkali and thermal cauterization, tooth extraction, excisions, and trocars for draining abscess, draining hydrocele and ascitic fluid, removal of the prostate gland, urethral stricture dilatation, vesicolithotomy, hernia surgery, caesarian section, management of haemorrhoids, fistulae, laparotomy and management of intestinal obstruction, perforated intestines and accidental perforation of the abdomen with protrusion of omentum and the principles of fracture management, viz., traction, manipulation, apposition and stabilization including some measures of rehabilitation and fitting of prosthetic. It enumerates six types of dislocations, twelve varieties of fractures, and classification of the bones and their reaction to the injuries, and gives a classification of eye diseases including cataract surgery. Suśruta has been dubbed "the father of surgery" on account of the extraordinarily accurate and detailed accounts of surgery to be found in the work. He has also been called "the first plastic surgeon

Do you think this guy was ordnary and Basic.?

So you made a user today and bumped an almost 3 year old thread to prove what exactly? Some undocumented claims unlike the person discussed in this thread?

wait and watch in few yrs "0" will also be discovered by ancient islamic reserchers...

OnTopic:Let's be greatful we have better medical tech. Thanks to early experiments..What a time to be alive.

Sorry to break your ignorance but the concept of a 0/zero was developed in Southern Iraq by Sumerians. Not much "Indian" about them. Of course this is documented proof. There might have been earlier discoveries by others that we don't know about but that's not how history is measured. After all we only know a tiny bit of history (recorded) compared to our existence on this planet.

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-zero

http://www.livescience.com/27853-who-invented-zero.html