A Caesarean Section, Avicenna, Uzbekistan

 

A Caesarean section in progress  conducted by Avicenna  who was far ahead of the times in introducing radical medical innovation  guided by scientific principles . Abu Ali Sina or Avicenna as he was known in the West, was one of the greatest Polymaths of the world. He is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden age and the father of early modern medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities  and remained in use as late as 1650.  Avicenna was born in. 980 CE in Afshana,  a village near Bukhara in Uzbekistan and died at the age of  56  in 1037 and was buried in the city of Hamadan

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