Abulcasis, the father of modern surgery.

e reviews by Izet Masic at al give me the pleasure of enjoying the passionate ideas and advances of Arabic medicine over the end of IX and beginning X centuries (1, 2, 3). ey state this the renaissance to several representative islamic authors such as Avicenna, Aver-roes, Rhazes, Avenzor, Ibn al-Nafis, Abulcasis, and many other wise men in di erent sciences and disciplines. is period is considered as the " Golden Age of Arabic civilization ". Being simultaneously immersed on the lecture of an historical novel on these topics (4), kindly allow me to mention the renowned father of modern surgery: Ibn al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucasis), born in 936 in Al-Zahra, Cordova (Andalusia), practised as physician , pharmacist and surgeon (5), and wrote the encyclopaedia Al-Tasrif, essential in Europe for many centuries after its translation into Latin with vari-He was a pioneer designer of over 200 surgical instruments. Abulcasis developed skill in neurosurgery, dentistry, eye-ear and throat surgery, bladder's stone removal, midwifery, fractures or mammaplasty. As primal development, he was the rst to control bleeding using cotton, cauterization or ligation. He also was concerned regarding asepsis and used alcohol extracted from wine during operations. He designed an anesthetic sponge imbibed with a boiled solution of water, hashish, opium, and c-hyoscine (5), treated morbid obesity and was the rst to describe haemo-philia. Abulcasis died on 1013, being recognized as the Founder the of Science of Surgery (5, 6, 7).