Sabuncuoğlu's Imperial Surgery
Cirugía ilustrada de Sabuncuoğlu
- Date
- 1465 · confidence high
- Place
- Amasya, Turkey
- Credited to
- Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu
- People
- 👤 Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu1385–1468
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
The first surgical treatise in Turkish, with colour miniatures of instruments and operations, including scenes of women surgeons treating women. It updates al-Zahrawi's surgery with the author's own cases from the Amasya hospital.
What it led to
- surgical iconography
- Ottoman surgery
- documentation of women in surgical practice