Erschienen in:
01.10.2005 | Letter to the Editor
First detailed description of axial traction techniques by serefeddin sabuncuoglu in the 15th century
verfasst von:
Gulsah Bademci, Funda Batay, Hakan Sabuncuoglu
Erschienen in:
European Spine Journal
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Ausgabe 8/2005
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Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu was a famous Turkish surgeon who lived in Amasya, Central Anatolia in 1385–1470. He is the author of the first illustrated surgical textbook in the Turkish-Islamic literature, namely, ‘Cerrahiyyetu’l Haniyye’ [
23]. There are three known handwritten copies of the book; two in İstanbul [
18,
19] and one in Paris [
20]. His marvellous book, ‘Cerrahiyyetu’l Haniyye’ was re-discovered in 1939 by Suheyl Unver [
22]. In, 1992 Ilter Uzel, a Turkish medical historian, examined three copies of the book and published them in Turkish, English and Arabic [
23]. …