Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe

was the first educated and scientific German surgeon

was a French surgeon and physiologist

was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist

was the first Frenchman to author a surgical treatise, La Chirurgie

his best-known work is Chirurgie, a book on surgery that was translated into several languages

was a Salernitan surgeon who wrote a work on medicine entitled Practica Chirurgiae

He was also well-known for his surgical skills, experiences and medical knowledge.

Hieronymus Brunschwig or Hieronymus Brunschwygk (c. 1450, c. 1512) was a German surgeon ("Wundarzt"), alchemist and botanist.

Alexander Monro (19 September 1697-10 July 1767) was a Scottish surgeon and anatomist.

was a French surgeon born in Gramat

was a Swiss medical doctor, surgeon and naturalist

Colinet was a midwife and skillful surgeon, who treated many patients throughout Germany

François Chopart (20 October 1743-9 June 1795) was a French surgeon born in Paris.

was an Italian surgeon

His name represents the first school of Western medicine in Japan and the beginning of rangaku, or Dutch studies.

was a Greek surgeon, who lived in the 2nd century AD in Rome

Sehr schätzenswerth ist auch die von ihm ausgeführte Vereinfachung des bis zu seiner Zeit sehr unförmlichen und überfüllten chirurgischen Instrumentariums

As a surgeon, Hesselbach is best known for his work with hernia operations.

He gave lectures with the Royal Academy of Medicine in Paris, and practiced surgery at Hôpital de la Charité.

In Palermo, he performed the first recorded splenectomy on Italian soil.

pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery

was a German surgeon who published the Feldbuch der Wundarzney

He was a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, and a favored student of Ambroise Paré (1510-1590)

was a German surgeon and obstetrician

In 1731, with François Gigot de la Peyronie (1678-1747), he founded the Académie Royale de Chirurgie.

practised at the Edinburgh Foundling Hospital as a surgeon

He invented several surgical instruments, including the probe that bears his name (Belloc probe or cannula).

Once his thesis was defended, he returned to Lyon, where he was appointed junior surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1744.

In 1769, Henckel conducted the first caesarean section to incise the linea alba on a living woman.

He wrote a book, which gives a good representation of the state of the art of surgery in the seventeenth century in Amsterdam.

Daviel performed the first documented planned primary extracapsular cataract extraction on 18 September 1750

William of Salicet (1210-1277) (Italian: Guglielmo da Saliceto; French: Guillaume de Salicet; Latin: Guilielmus de Salicetum) was an Italian surgeon and cleric

was appointed chief surgeon at the Pia Casa di Santa Caterina alla Ruota

was the royal surgeon to Louis IX, Philip the Bold and Philip the Fair of France

was a prominent surgeon of the 16th century

was an English surgeon and author

Sabuncuoğlu was the author of the Cerrahiyyetu

He is considered one of the greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages.

He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and forensic pathology, and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially in the treatment of wounds.

Hanaoka Seishū (華岡 青洲; October 23, 1760, November 21, 1835) was a Japanese surgeon of the Edo period with a knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine, as well as Western surgical techniques he had learned through Rangaku (literally "Dutch learning", and by extension "Western learning").

Historical texts, such as Records of the Three Kingdoms and Book of the Later Han record Hua Tuo as having been the first person in China to use anaesthesia during surgery.

Abū Marwān ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Zuhr (Arabic: أبو مروان عبد الملك بن زهر), traditionally known by his Latinized name Avenzoar (; 1094-1162), was an Arab physician, surgeon, and poet.

Percivall Pott (6 January 1714, in London, 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps' carcinoma.

Suśruta (Sanskrit: सुश्रुत, lit.

John Hunter (13 February 1728-16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day.