Drawings and Pharmacy in al-ZahrāwÄ«’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. Consisting of 30 treatises, it is the only known work of...
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