Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of History of Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Acta Chir Belg. 2020 Jun;120(3):204-211. doi: 10.1080/00015458.2020.1726096. Epub 2020 Feb 11.
Avicenna, as the Persian physician has had a great contribution to the field of medical sciences, especially surgery in 10th and 11th centuries AD. In the present paper, a few translated quoted words of Avicenna were shared about his surgical practice. Indexing databases of PubMed and Google Scholar were searched using the keywords like Avicenna, surgery, and anesthesiology to find related papers and documents. The first portion comprises of some most commonly used simple and compound herbal preparations to produce general and local anesthetics before the surgery and as dental anesthetic agents. In the second portion, practices regarding surgical management for skull fractures, spinal trauma, bone fracture, cataract, incurable urinary retention, bladder calculi, hemorrhoids, cancer as well as endotracheal intubation and tracheostomy have also been incorporated. Finally, it ends up with practices regarding the use of natural products as postoperative dressing for traumatic and surgical wounds and after cataract surgery. Findings of this review study will provide a brief insight on Avicenna's Canon of Medicine to the sciences of anesthesiology and surgery based on the recent investigations.
阿维森纳作为波斯医生，对医学科学领域，特别是公元 10 世纪和 11 世纪的外科学做出了巨大贡献。在本文中，分享了一些阿维森纳关于外科实践的翻译引用文字。使用关键词如阿维森纳、外科学和麻醉学，在 PubMed 和谷歌学术数据库中进行索引搜索，以找到相关的论文和文献。第一部分包括一些在手术前和作为牙科麻醉剂使用的最常用的简单和复合草药制剂，以产生全身和局部麻醉剂。第二部分纳入了有关颅骨骨折、脊柱创伤、骨折、白内障、无法治愈的尿潴留、膀胱结石、痔疮、癌症以及气管插管和气管切开术的外科手术管理实践。最后，它以使用天然产品作为创伤和外科手术后伤口以及白内障手术后的术后敷料结束。本综述研究的结果将根据最近的调查，为麻醉学和外科学提供关于阿维森纳《医典》的简要见解。
