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Dating the Sushruta Samhita has been a matter of debate, but a partial manuscript has been dated to 878 CE. As of 2023, it is generally accepted by scholars that there were several ancient authors collectively called "Suśruta" who contributed to this text.
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quoted Al-Tasrif over 200 times. Abu Al-Qasim's influence continued for at least five centuries after his death, extending into the Renaissance, evidenced by al-Tasrif's frequent reference by French surgeon
251:, and designed a residency training program for American surgeons. He has been called "the most innovative and influential surgeon the United States has produced", and also the "father of modern surgery". 431: 235:(1829–1894) was an early user of antisepsis, and was the first to perform a resection of the esophagus, and various other operations. He has been called the "father of modern surgery". 943: 1156:
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and invented a number of new surgical methods and instruments. He has been called the "father of modern surgery".
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to have been the most eminent surgeon of the European Middle Ages. He wrote the surgical work
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The knife man: the extraordinary life and times of John Hunter, father of modern surgery
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They include the Saṃhitā of Suśruta, the father of surgery in India
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List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field
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Index

surgical art
Sushruta
IAST
Sanskrit
Sushruta Samhita

Al-Zahrawi
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
Al-Tasrif
Arabic
hemophilia
ectopic pregnancy
stone babies
Guy de Chauliac
Jacques Daléchamps
Guy de Chauliac
Encyclopædia Britannica
Chirurgia magna
Ambroise Paré

Hieronymus Fabricius
Hieronymus Fabricius
William Harvey
John Hunter
Philip Syng Physick
Philadelphia
Joseph Lister
carbolic acid
Theodor Billroth
William Stewart Halsted

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