The Role of Albucasis in Evolution of the History of Otorhinolaryngology
Title: The Role of Albucasis in Evolution of the History of OtorhinolaryngologyPublished by: Global Journal of Otolaryngology
Release Date: 2016
“ALBUCASIS (936-1013 AD) author the first rational, complete, and illustrated treatises of surgery. The Surgery is the last of thirty treatises comprising his Kitab al-Tasrif li-man ajiza an al-Taʹalif, the excellent surgical textbook with illustration of surgical instruments in the Middle Ages. Most of the content was a repetition of the earlier contributions of Paul Aegina (7th Century) with modifications. This textbook was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona (12th Century) and greatly influenced Europe as Eastern Islamic countries. He was a working doctor and practical surgeon. This surgical textbook describes many operative procedures, manipulations and instruments in Otorhinolaryngology, explained the suture of new and old wounds in the Nose, Lip, and Ear. In the Ear Diseases include removing foreign bodies, performing operations for obstruction of the ear because of congenital aural atresia, scars and stenosis after injuries, polyps and granulations, extraction a creatures. Forward the Nose Diseases treatment fractures, nasal fistula, nasal polyps and tumors.
About mouth diseases explained extraction of fibroma on the lip, operation of the tongue-tie’s division, removal of tumors under the tongue, in the throat diseases, definition of Tonsils indication, contra indications, technique of tonsillectomy and its instruments. Excision of the throat’s tumors, removal of Uvula’s tumor that is called ‘UVA’, extraction of foreign bodies from the throat and esophagus, removal of leech sticking in the throat. In laryngeal diseases, he describes operation Tracheostomy which called it Laryngotomy, used cauterization to stop bleeding after wide excision of the cancer, and prophylactic a recurrence. Albucasis saved the surgery in the middle ages. Sought to revive the art of surgery and was the one of the founders of the renascence surgery can be ranked Albucasis with Hippocrates and Galen.