Known as the “Father of Surgery” Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi is a pioneering 10th century Muslim physician, who made significant contributions to medicine Born during the Islamic Golden Age he is renowned for inventing surgical practices that still influence medicine today A thread
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1/ Al-Zahrawi, known in the West as Albucasis, was born in the city of Zahra, near Cordoba, Spain. He excelled in the fields of internal medicine, surgery, and ophthalmology, and contributed significantly to the progress of medical knowledge and surgical techniques. Albucasis blistering a patient in the hospital at Cordova, Wellcome Collection Gallery