title: A Historical Glance at the Arabo-Islamic Surgical Instruments During the Ages.
abstract: Arabo-Islamic physicians demonstrated exceptional skill and innovation in surgery, by having used the instruments introduced by ancient Greeks and Greco-Roman surgeons. In many cases they have manufactured their own innovative designs promoting further the success of the difficult surgical operations of their era. The surgical instruments and the surgeon's boxes, used to regularise the plethora of the metallic items, were decorated with fine designs, in order to depict the Arab civilisation. For the first time surgery became a separate medical art, while Arabo-Islamic medicine re-introduced ancient Greek and Byzantine surgery to the world.
authors.affiliation: History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece. gregorytsoucalas@yahoo.gr.|Ieroloxiton 155, Agioi Anargyroi, 38334, Vólos, Greece. gregorytsoucalas@yahoo.gr.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tsoucalas
authors.affiliation: History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.|Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Viopolis, 41500, Larissa, Greece.
authors.forename: Markos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sgantzos
mesh_terms: D018643:Arab World; D006115:Greece; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam; D066231:Surgeons; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history*