Surgeons who worked before the age of anesthesia and antisepsis: the Indian Sushruta, the Chinese Hua Tuo, the Andalusian and Cordoban Ibn Zuhr and Al-Zahrawi, Ambroise Pare of France, the British John Hunter and Percivall Pott and the Japanese Hanaoka Seishu. A person belongs here when the cited article describes a surgeon whose career ended before about 1840. It excludes surgeons of the antiseptic and modern era, who sit in the groups for modern operative surgery and for the specialties.
All Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe
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Wilhelm Fabry (Wikipedia)
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was the first educated and scientific German surgeon
View the Source Antoine Louis (Wikipedia)
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was a French surgeon and physiologist
View the Source James Parkinson (Wikipedia)
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was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist
View the Source Henri de Mondeville (Wikipedia)
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was the first Frenchman to author a surgical treatise, La Chirurgie
View the Source Lorenz Heister (Wikipedia)
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his best-known work is Chirurgie, a book on surgery that was translated into several languages
View the Source Rogerius (physician) (Wikipedia)
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was a Salernitan surgeon who wrote a work on medicine entitled Practica Chirurgiae
View the Source Wouter Schouten (Wikipedia)
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He was also well-known for his surgical skills, experiences and medical knowledge.
View the Source Hieronymus Brunschwig (Wikipedia)
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Hieronymus Brunschwig or Hieronymus Brunschwygk (c. 1450, c. 1512) was a German surgeon ("Wundarzt"), alchemist and botanist.
View the Source Alexander Monro Primus (Wikipedia)
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Alexander Monro (19 September 1697-10 July 1767) was a Scottish surgeon and anatomist.
View the Source Antoine Dubois (Wikipedia)
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was a French surgeon born in Gramat
View the Source Louis Jurine (Wikipedia)
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was a Swiss medical doctor, surgeon and naturalist
View the Source Marie Colinet (Wikipedia)
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Colinet was a midwife and skillful surgeon, who treated many patients throughout Germany
View the Source François Chopart (Wikipedia)
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François Chopart (20 October 1743-9 June 1795) was a French surgeon born in Paris.
View the Source Giovanni da Vigo (Wikipedia)
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was an Italian surgeon
View the Source Caspar Schamberger (Wikipedia)
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His name represents the first school of Western medicine in Japan and the beginning of rangaku, or Dutch studies.
View the Source Antyllus (source article)
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was a Greek surgeon, who lived in the 2nd century AD in Rome
View the Source August Gottlieb Richter (Deutsche Biographie)
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Sehr schätzenswerth ist auch die von ihm ausgeführte Vereinfachung des bis zu seiner Zeit sehr unförmlichen und überfüllten chirurgischen Instrumentariums
View the Source Franz Kaspar Hesselbach (Wikipedia)
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As a surgeon, Hesselbach is best known for his work with hernia operations.
View the Source Henri François Le Dran (Wikipedia)
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He gave lectures with the Royal Academy of Medicine in Paris, and practiced surgery at Hôpital de la Charité.
View the Source Leonardo Fioravanti (doctor) (Wikipedia)
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In Palermo, he performed the first recorded splenectomy on Italian soil.
View the Source Gaspare Tagliacozzi (Wikipedia)
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pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery
View the Source Hans von Gersdorff (Wikipedia)
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was a German surgeon who published the Feldbuch der Wundarzney
View the Source Jacques Guillemeau (Wikipedia)
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He was a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, and a favored student of Ambroise Paré (1510-1590)
View the Source Carl Caspar von Siebold (source article)
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was a German surgeon and obstetrician
View the Source Georges Mareschal (source article)
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In 1731, with François Gigot de la Peyronie (1678-1747), he founded the Académie Royale de Chirurgie.
View the Source Robert Kerr (writer) (source article)
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practised at the Edinburgh Foundling Hospital as a surgeon
View the Source Jean-Jacques Belloc (source article)
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He invented several surgical instruments, including the probe that bears his name (Belloc probe or cannula).
View the Source Claude Pouteau (source article)
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Once his thesis was defended, he returned to Lyon, where he was appointed junior surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1744.
View the Source Joachim Friedrich Henckel (source article)
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In 1769, Henckel conducted the first caesarean section to incise the linea alba on a living woman.
View the Source Job Janszoon van Meekeren (Wikipedia)
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He wrote a book, which gives a good representation of the state of the art of surgery in the seventeenth century in Amsterdam.
View the Source Jacques Daviel (Wikipedia)
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Daviel performed the first documented planned primary extracapsular cataract extraction on 18 September 1750
View the Source William of Saliceto (Wikipedia)
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William of Salicet (1210-1277) (Italian: Guglielmo da Saliceto; French: Guillaume de Salicet; Latin: Guilielmus de Salicetum) was an Italian surgeon and cleric
View the Source Pietro Moscati (Wikipedia)
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was appointed chief surgeon at the Pia Casa di Santa Caterina alla Ruota
View the Source Jean Pitard (Wikipedia)
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was the royal surgeon to Louis IX, Philip the Bold and Philip the Fair of France
View the Source Mariano Santo (source article)
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was a prominent surgeon of the 16th century
View the Source Samuel Sharp (surgeon) (source article)
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was an English surgeon and author
View the Source Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu (source article)
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Sabuncuoğlu was the author of the Cerrahiyyetu
View the Source Wikipedia: Al-Zahrawi
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He is considered one of the greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages.
View the Source Ambroise Pare, Wikipedia
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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.
View the Source Hanaoka Seishu (Wikipedia)
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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").
View the Source Wikipedia: Hua Tuo
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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.
View the Source Wikipedia: Ibn Zuhr
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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.
View the Source Percivall Pott (Wikipedia)
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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.
View the Source Sushruta (Wikipedia)
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Suśruta (Sanskrit: सुश्रुत, lit.
View the Source John Hunter (surgeon) (Wikipedia)
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John Hunter (13 February 1728-16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day.
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