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Anatolian contribution to surgery and medicine in the 15th century - Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu
Uwe Wollina1, Ayse Serap Karadag2
1Former Head of Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Städtisches Klinikum Dresden, Dresden, Germany; International Adjuvant Faculty, Department of Dermatology, Venerology, Leprosy, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education & Research - Premier Deemed to be University, Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Abstract:
Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385 to 1468 or 1470), a physician and surgeon from Amasya in Anatolia, is the author of three major books on pharmacy, medicine, and surgery, as well as the author of the first illustrated surgical textbook in the Turkish-Islamic literature, Cerrahiyyet'ul-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), written in Turkish. It is the first book to contain colored illustrations of surgical procedures and instruments. Sabuncuoğlu was an unpretentious, curious, and intelligent physician and surgeon, a calligrapher, and a miniature artist. Although the teachers of medicine and the surgeons in Central Anatolia used his book, it was ignored by the Ottoman scientific elite in Istanbul during his lifetime.
