Abulcasis biography of michael
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Contributions From
The Museum of History and Technology
Paper 22
Drawings and Pharmacy in al-Zahrws
10th-Century Surgical Treatise
Sami Hamarneh
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Figure 1.—Reproduction of a page from original Arabic manuscript indexed as "Cod. N.F. A" at Oesterr
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Az-Zahrawi / Abulcasis
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al-Zahrawi
Arab Andalusian physician, surgeon and chemist (–)
Not to be confused with Al-Qaeda terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri (–).
Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari[1] (Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي; c. –), popularly known as al-Zahrawi (الزهراوي), Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim), was an Arab physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus.[2] He is considered one of the greatest surgeons of the mittpunkt Ages.[3][4]
Al-Zahrawi's principal work fryst vatten the Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices.[5] The surgery chapter of this work was later translated into Latin, attaining popularity and becoming the standard textbook in Europe for the next five hundred years.[6] Al-Zahrawi's pioneering contributions to the field of surgical procedures and instruments had an enormous impact in the East and West well into the modern period, whe