title: Insights into Avicenna's contributions to the science of surgery.
abstract: An influential Persian scholar of the Islamic Golden Age of Medicine (from the ninth to the twelfth centuries AD), Ibn-e Sina (AD 980-1037), also known by the Latinized name Avicenna, is best remembered for his contributions to various aspects of medicine, particularly surgery. In fact, the art of surgery was a major focus of his attention and practice, and one to which he devoted several chapters of his main medical encyclopedia, Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine). This article presents a brief review of Avicenna's life, introduce his textbook of medicine, and present his significant contributions to the science of surgery.
authors: Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Dalfardibeh@gmail.com.
authors: Behnam
authors: B
authors: Dalfardi
authors: Golnoush Sadat
authors: GS
authors: Mahmoudi Nezhad
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000266:history; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049691:History, Medieval; D019071:Persia; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative