Professor Abdela'al Abdalla Osman, the previous President of the Sudan Association of Surgeons, a pioneering Sudanese Plastic Surgeon and one of the Fathers of surgical and medical education in Sudan, has spent much of his life-time studying History and Islam, and has gone a long way towards interpreting many features of human anatomy, physiology, behaviour and pathology within the lines and words of the Quraan.

His writings and quotations on the history of the development of the Sudan and its tribes, and the development of Islam in Sudan go hand-in-hand with his narration of the Development of the Surgical Services in Sudan.

His article on the "Milestones in the History of Surgical Practice in the Sudan" which we present here in three sections or eras (the same three periods he has given in his account) are too valuable to be passed by and form a solid ground on which we can build our future surgical practice.

Professor Abdela'al Abdalla Osman, the previous President of the Sudan Association of Surgeons, a pioneering Sudanese Plastic Surgeon and one of the Fathers of surgical and medical education in Sudan, has spent much of his life-time studying History and Islam, and has gone a long way towards interpreting many features of human anatomy, physiology, behaviour and pathology within the lines and words of the Quraan.

His writings and quotations on the history of the development of the Sudan and its tribes, and the development of Islam in Sudan go hand-in-hand with his narration of the Development of the Surgical Services in Sudan.

His article on the "Milestones in the History of Surgical Practice in the Sudan" which we present here in three sections or eras (the same three periods he has given in his account) are too valuable to be passed by and form a solid ground on which we can build our future surgical practice.