Illustrated surgery of Albucasis
Cirugía ilustrada y catgut (al-Tasrif de Abulcasis)
- Date
- c. 1000 · confidence high
- Place
- Córdoba (Madinat al-Zahra), al-Andalus
- Credited to
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucasis)
- People
- 👤 Abulcasis936–1010
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
An encyclopaedic treatise describing and illustrating some 200 surgical instruments, the use of catgut for internal sutures, cautery, vessel ligature and obstetric techniques. It founded surgery as a discipline.
Translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona in Toledo; it remained a university textbook until the 16th century.
What it led to
- European surgery at Salerno, Guy de Chauliac and Montpellier, through the Toledo translation
- specialised surgical instruments
- the separation of surgery as a regulated trade
Built on
- Public hospital (bimaristan)805
- Galen and Paul of Aegina
- Public hospital (bimaristan)
Made possible
- Sabuncuoğlu's Imperial Surgery1465
- modern surgical instruments
- absorbable suture