Medieval breakthrough

One of the key players who made the real breakthrough in surgical instrumentation was Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, known in the West as Abulcasis, and considered the "father of modern surgery". The first observation one must make at the outset is that Al-Zahrawi wrote his famous Al-Tasrif liman 'Ajiza 'an Al Ta'leef (written in 1000 CE), translated as The Method of Medicine, and often referred to as Al-Tasrif, after long experience accumulated over fifty years of practising medicine. The book, therefore, was aimed to establish the general guidelines in the practical medicine by emphasising the "do" and "don’t" in almost every issue encountered and the solutions/ treatments he provided or invented during this long experience.