Al-Tasrif

al-Tasrif
Authoral-Zahrawi
Original titleكتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف
Publishedc. 1000

The Kitāb al-Taṣrīf (Arabic: كتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف, lit.'The Arrangement of Medical Knowledge for One Who is Not Able to Compile a Book for Himself'),[1] known in English as The Method of Medicine, is a 30-volume Arabic encyclopedia on medicine and surgery, written near the year 1000 by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis). It is available in translation.[2] The Kitab al-Tasrif took al-Zahrawi over 50 years to complete. It contains information about a wide variety of illnesses, injuries, medical conditions, treatments, and surgical procedures. It describes over 200 different surgical instruments. Surgeons continued to rely on the Kitab al-Tasrif well into the 1700s.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Surgery for Gynecomastia in the Islamic Golden Age: Al-Tasrif of Al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD)
  2. ^ al-Zahrāwī, Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās; Studies, Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern (1973). Albucasis on surgery and instruments. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-01532-6. Retrieved 16 May 2011.