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Ophthalmic techniques described by Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385−1468 ad )
Author(s) -
Oguz Halit,
San Imran,
Verit Ayhan,
Uzel Ilter
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
clinical and experimental ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 1442-6404
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2004.00780.x
Subject(s) - medicine , turkish , ottoman empire , arabic , classics , inclusion (mineral) , islam , ophthalmology , art history , history , law , philosophy , archaeology , politics , linguistics , political science , gender studies , sociology
¸Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu (1385−1468 ad ) was a Turkish surgeon who lived in the Ottoman Empire during the fifteenth century, a time of progressive expansion. When in his eighties, he wrote Cerrahiyyetü’l‐Haniyye , which means Imperial Surgery . His book is the first example of an illustrated surgical textbook in the Turkish−Islamic medical literature. The importance of his book rests upon the inclusion of colour miniatures of the surgical procedures, incisional techniques and instruments, all drawn by Sabuncuog˘lu himself. Only three hand‐written copies exist, two of which were originally written by the author and are currently exhibited in Paris and Istanbul. The book was rediscovered in 1936, but some parts of it are still suspected to be missing. At present, the book consists of three chapters divided into 193 known sections. The sections deal with all fields of surgery including ophthalmology, and cite relevant Greek, Arabic and Persian textbooks. In this historical article the sections of Cerrahiyyetü’l‐Haniyye pertinent to ophthalmology are critically reviewed, including a selection of the coloured drawings.