Al-Zahrawi, author of Al-Tasrif, is called the father of modern surgery.
Ambroise Pare is regarded as the father of modern battlefield and surgical technique.
Vesalius held the chair of surgery and anatomy at the University of Padua and taught anatomy through public human dissection.
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Galen, Healers Galen's post as physician to gladiators and his advanced, if animal-derived, work on brain and eye surgery were surgical in nature, though his broader medical writing ranged far beyond surgery alone.
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Hippocratic treatises including On Fractures and On the Articulations are among the earliest systematic surgical texts.
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Ibn Zuhr was an Andalusian pioneer of experimental surgery.
John Hunter is regarded as the father of scientific surgery.
Founding physician William Stewart Halsted established the modern American surgical residency system at the hospital.
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Joseph Murray performed the first successful kidney transplant.
Mary Edwards Walker served as a Civil War field surgeon.
Mayo Clinic's founding physicians William James and Charles Horace Mayo built the practice's early reputation on surgical outcomes and pioneered group-practice surgical case review.
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The movement's founding purpose, following Henry Dunant's account of Solferino, was organized care for battlefield wounded, historically a matter of field surgery.
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Theodor Billroth was a pioneering abdominal surgeon, developing the Billroth I and II procedures.
William Halsted, regarded as the father of modern American surgery, developed radical mastectomy and surgical residency training.