Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385-1468?), the author of Cerrahiyetü'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), was a distinguished Ottoman Turkish surgeon. The first illustrated Turkish surgical textbook, Cerrahiyetü'l-Haniyye consisted of three chapters (ie, cauterisation treatments, surgical procedures and fractures and dislocations). Although the main source of the book was Al-Tasrif (Textbook of Surgery) by ...

e reviews by Izet Masic at al give me the pleasure of enjoying the passionate ideas and advances of Arabic medicine over the end of IX and beginning X centuries (1, 2, 3). ey state this the renaissance to several representative islamic authors such as Avicenna, Aver-roes, Rhazes, Avenzor, Ibn al-Nafis, Abulcasis, and many other wise men in di erent sciences and disciplines. is period is conside...

abu al-qasim khalaf ibn al-abbas al-zahrawi, also known as albucasis, is one of the greatest physicians and surgeons in islamic world who is best remembered for his medical encyclopedia, al-tasrif li man ajaz an-il-talif (an aid for those who lack the capacity to read big books). al-tasrif li man ajaz an-il-talif(an aid for those who lack the capacity to read big books). al-tasrifwas translated...

The earliest documented history of cleft lip is based on a combination of religion, superstition, invention and charlatanism. While Greeks ignored their existence, Spartans and Romans would kill these children as they were considered to harbour evil spirits. When saner senses prevailed Fabricius ab Aquapendente (1537-1619) was the first to suggest the embryological basis of these clefts. The kn...

abu al-qasim khalaf ibn-e-abbas zahrawi(936-1013 a.d.), known as albucasis in west, was one of the greatest physicians in the islamic world. to many historians, he was considered as the father of modern surgery. his book, al-tasrif, e.g., written in 30 chapters, was, in fact, a medical encyclopedia of that era. it was used as one of the main references in medical academic centers for centuries....

BE1FORE comiimencing my paper on recent views on the tonsil and adenioid problem, I xvill take you back to ancient timnes and verv briefly tell you somiiething about the tonsil problem of those days. In the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius there lived a imian, Cornelius (ialsus, who wrote an encVclopaxdia, in which, although not himilself a medical imian, lc emboilhocics a treatise on mle(di...

BY THE year A.D. 1213 Christianity was victorious across Europe; only a few isolated pockets of paganism in remote districts of Sweden, Finland, and Moslem Spain held out against what must have seemed to be the inevitable influence of the Church. Nordic expansion was in eclipse. The age of the Vikings was at an end. The marauders who had loosed such fury on the continent to the south, had, in t...