ORL surgery in Albucasis's treatise on surgery. A vision of cervicofacial surgical therapeutics in the year 1000
Bonfils, P.; Bensafir, D.; Elbez, M.; Claverie, J.; Albucasis
Annales d'Oto-Laryngologie et de Chirurgie Cervico Faciale Bulletin de la Societe d'Oto-Laryngologie des Hopitaux de Paris 111(4): 232-237
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-438X PMID: 7726482 Document Number: 425886
The work of the famous Arab doctor, Albucasis, is not well known to head and neck surgeons. However, the thirtieth time of his treatise on medicine is essentially a surgical textbook and includes many. Facts concerning otorhinolaryngology. Albucasis's complete work is an exhaustive compilation of late tenth century medical knowhow which ensured the link between ancient medicine, essentially of Greek origin, and modern western medicine. The important work of Jewish and Arab physicians in the early and late Middle Ages was necessary for the transmission of knowledge from the ancient near last to the modern western world. Among Albucasis's descriptions of surgical techniques, tonsillectomy and trachestomy are particularly interesting. In order to accurately formulate indications for surgery, Albucasis endeavors to present the signs and symptoms of pathological conditions requiring surgical treatment. Finally, Albucasis reveals himself to be a humanist, as well as a physician and surgeon.