13th-19th Century
By the 13th century, many European towns were demanding that physicians have several years of study or training before they could practice. Montpellier, Padua and Bologna Universities were particularly interested in the academic side to Surgery, and by the 15th century at the latest, Surgery was a separate university subject to Physic (Medicine).
- William of Saliceto also known as Guilielmus de Saliceto c.1210-1277
- Henri de Mondeville (c. 1260 – 1316)
- Mondino de Luzzi (1275-1326) "Mundinus" carried out the first systematic human dissections since Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos 1500 years earlier.
- Guy de Chauliac d.1368
- John of Arderne 1306-1390
- Heinrich von Pfolspeundt f.1460
- Antonio Benivieni 1443-1502 Pathological anatomy
- Paracelsus 1493-1541 On the relationship between medicine and surgery surgery book
- Ambroise Pare 1510-1590 pioneered the treatment of gunshot wounds.
- Bartholomeo Maggi at Bologna, Felix Wurtz of Zurich, Léonard Botal in Paris, and the Englishman Thomas Gale (surgeon), (the diversity of their geographical origins attests to the widespread interest of surgeons in the problem), all published works urging similar treatment to Paré’s. But it was Paré’s writings which were the most influential.
- Pierre Franco 1500?-1561
- Caspar Stromayr or Stromayer Sixteenth Century
- Hieronymus Fabricius His "Surgery" is mostly that of Celsus, Paul of Aegina, and Abulcasis citeing them by name.
- William Clowes 1540-1604 Surgical chest for military surgeons
- Peter Lowe 1550-1612
- Richard Wiseman 1621-1676
- William Cheselden 1688-1752
- Lorenz Heister 1683-1758
- Percivall Pott 1714-1789
- John Hunter 1728-1793
- Pierre-Joseph Desault 1744-1795 First surgical periodical
- Dominique Jean Larrey 1766-1842 Surgeon to Napoleon
- Antonio Scarpa 1752-1832
- Astley Cooper 1768-1843 lectures principles and practice
- The Bells of Scotland
- Benjamin Bell 1749-1806Leading surgeon of his time and father of a surgical dynasty system of surgery
- Charles Bell 1774-1842
- John Bell 1763-1820
- Baron Guillaume Dupuytren 1777-1835 Head surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, The age Dupuytren
- James Marion Sims 1813-1883 Vesico-vaganial surgery Father of surgical genocology Biography
- Joseph Lister 1827-1912 Anti-septic surgery Father of modern surgery
Read more about this topic: History Of Surgery
Famous quotes containing the word century:
“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907–1961)