Surgeon performing surgery, artistic impression

Ibn al-Quff was a practicing physician and a medical author who left several texts in medicine. He was also a surgeon and the author of the earliest medieval Arabic treatise intended solely for surgeons 'Kitāb al-ʻUmda fi 'l-Ǧirāḥa' or 'Basics in the Art of Surgery': a general medical manual covering anatomy and drugs therapy as well as surgical care, concentrating on wounds and tumours.