Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise, by Sami Hamarneh This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise Author: Sami Hamarneh Release Date: July 24, 2008 [EBook #26038] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRAWINGS AND PHARMACY *** Produced by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Pg 81CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY PAPER 22 DRAWINGS AND PHARMACY IN AL-ZAHRĀWĪ’S 10TH-CENTURY SURGICAL TREATISE Sami Hamarneh 82 Figure 1.—Reproduction of a page from original Arabic manuscript indexed as "Cod. N.F. 476A" at Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna. Courtesy Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek. 83Drawings and Pharmacy in al-Zahrāwī’s 10th-Century Surgical Treatise by Sami Hamarneh Probably the earliest independent work in Arabic Spain to embrace the whole of medical knowledge of the time is the encyclopedic al-Tasrīf, written in the late 10th century by Abū al-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī, also known as Abulcasis.