The Surgeon Who Argued About Which Metal to Burn You With - Video

Al-Zahrawi of Cordoba finished a thirty-volume medical encyclopedia around the year 1000. Its surgical volume was translated into Latin and stayed a standard European textbook for five hundred years. He cauterised with fire - including a red-hot iron to the head for migraines - argued iron beat the traditional gold, and warned nobody should try it without knowing anatomy.

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