The Father of Modern Surgery

<p>For five centuries his work was the definitive text for every surgeon in the Western world. Yet the name of Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi has been largely forgotten.</p><p>Born into the intellectual zenith of 10th-century al-Andalus al-Zahrawi served as the Royal Physician in the magnificent Caliphate of Córdoba. He inherited a medical landscape where surgery was a base craft practiced by barbers and bone-setters deemed beneath the learned physician. He left a world where it was a systematic rational and ethical medical discipline.</p><p>Trace the phenomenal journey of his work as it traveled from Córdoba to Toledo becoming the mandatory textbook that revived and shaped the surgical curriculum across Europe for half a millennium. This is the story of a forgotten genius who gave surgery its identity its methodology and its conscience-the undisputed <strong>Architect of Modern Surgery</strong>. Approx.166 pages 26700 word count</p>