baha’ al-dawlah razi (860-912 ah), the innovator surgeon, empiricist physician and pioneer in immunology

Willard E. Goodwin: educator, innovator and pioneer.

Willard E. Goodwin was born to Willard and Olive (Belt) Goodwin on July 24, 1915 in Los Angeles, California and died on July 22, 1998, just 2 days short of his 83rd birthday (fig. 1). Willard and his younger brother by 8 years, Donald A. Goodwin, grew up in La Cañada, California, an area just outside of Pasadena in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, where their nearest neighbors were n...

Emil Theodor Kocher : an innovator surgeon

Emil Theodor Kocher is considered along with Frank Lahey, Theodor Billroth, William Halsted, Charles Mayo, George Crile and Thomas Dunhill as one of the «Magnificent Seven», referring to the group of surgeons who managed thyroidectomy to make it a safe and efficient intervention that it is now practiced throughout the world. He was author of numerous contributions towards medicine. One of his m...

Ferdinand Sauerbruch: Pioneer Thoracic Surgeon.

Al-Razi and Islamic medicine in the 9th century.

Although Baghdad was only 50 years old in the 9th century, it was at the peak of its political power, a powerhouse of learning and the leading medical centre of the time. It was there that many important Greek works were translated into Arabic, including Dioscorides's Materia medica, which formed the basis for Arabic pharmacology. While Islamic physicians revered Greek medicine and seldom quest...

John H. Gibbon, Jr., M.D.: surgical innovator, pioneer, and inspiration.

George Guthrie – Soldier and Pioneer Surgeon

Health care associated infections, HCAI, have recently raised the concerns of both the public and politicians because of their significant socioeconomic burden. MRSA is a big player in the aetiology of HCAI and constitutes a major public threat presenting both therapeutic and infection control challenges in both the hospital setting and the community. This book, which consists of 16 chapters wr...