Dr. Salman Ahmed

Contributions of avicenna to surgery and anesthesiology

• Authors Details :  
• Salman Ahmed,  
• Arman Zargaran

Journal title : Acta Chirurgica Belgica

Publisher : Informa UK Limited

Print ISSN : 0001-5458

Page Number : 204-211

Journal volume : 120

Journal issue : 3

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Background: Avicenna, as the Persian physician, made a significant contribution to the field of medical sciences, especially surgery, in the 10th and 11th centuries AD. Methods: In the present paper, Avicenna's translated quoted words were shared about his surgical practice. Indexing databases of PubMed and Google Scholar were searched using keywords like Avicenna, surgery, and anesthesiology to find related papers and documents. Results: The first portion comprises some of the most commonly used simple and compound herbal preparations to produce general and local anaesthetics before the surgery and as dental anaesthetic agents. In the second portion, practices regarding surgical management for skull fractures, spinal trauma, bone fractures, cataracts, incurable urinary retention, bladder calculi, haemorrhoids, cancer, as well as endotracheal intubation and tracheostomy, have also been incorporated. Finally, it ends up with practices regarding the use of natural products as postoperative dressing for traumatic and surgical wounds and after cataract surgery. Conclusion: Based on the recent investigations, the findings of this review study will provide a brief insight into Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine and the sciences of anesthesiology and surgery.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.1080/00015458.2020.1726096

Article Subject Details

• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmacology
• Pharmacology and toxicology
• Pharmacy

Article Keywords Details

• Avicenna
• History of medicine
• Muslim scientists

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