Al-Zahrawi method on inflammatory swellings and tumours surgery

• Main Authors: Bilal, Sara Mohammed Osman Saleh, Kabbashi, Nassereldeen Ahmed
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IIUM Press 2011
• Subjects: BP1 Islam; R Medicine (General); RD Surgery
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/21118/1/CHAPTER_24.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/21118/; http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/default.aspx

The objective ofthis chapter is to list the contribution of AI-Zahrawi in the surgery of swellings and tumours. This chapter explores AI- Zahrawi as a surgeon in the field of inflammatory swellings and tumours. He was known as the most notable Muslim surgeon during the Islamic civilization. His name is Abu-AI-Qasim Khalaf Ibn'Abbas AI-Zahrawi known as Abulcasis, Bucasis or Alzahravius. In 930 A.D., he was born in AI-Zahra, a suburb of Cordova. He attended the University of Cordova which had been established for one and a half centuries. AI-Zahrawi as a physician was appointed as the Court-Physician of King Abdel-Rahman III (Amr SS, 2007, pp. 220-1). He spent a productive life in practicing medicine, especially in surgery and medical writings. He wrote mainly four books. One of them is "AI_Tastif Liman Ajiz'an Al-Ta'lif' which is the best medieval surgical encyclopaedia