Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi al-Ansari, popularly known as Al-Zahrawi, Latinised as Albucasis, was an Arab Muslim physician, surgeon and chemist who lived in Al-Andalus. Considered the greatest surgeon of the Middle Ages, he has been described as the father of surgery. Here in his hospital in Cordoba From La ciencia y sus hombres : vidas de los sabios ilustres desde la antigüedad hasta el siglo XIX T. 1 [Science and it's people Vol 1] by Luis Figuier ; traducción de la tercera edición francesa por Pelegrin Casabó y Pagés ; ilustrada por Armet, Gomez, Martí y Alsina, Planella, Pu


Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi al-Ansari, popularly known as Al-Zahrawi, Latinised as Albucasis, was an Arab Muslim physician, surgeon and chemist who lived in Al-Andalus. Considered the greatest surgeon of the Middle Ages, he has been described as the father of surgery. Here in his hospital in Cordoba From La ciencia y sus hombres : vidas de los sabios ilustres desde la antigüedad hasta el siglo XIX T. 1 [Science and it's people Vol 1] by Luis Figuier ; traducción de la tercera edición francesa por Pelegrin Casabó y Pagés ; ilustrada por Armet, Gomez, Martí y Alsina, Planella, Puiggarí, Serra, Printed in Barcelona in 1879


Size: 4936px × 3545px
Location: Barcelona
Photo credit: © Historic Illustrations / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 19th, abu, ages, al-abbas, al-andalus, al-ansari, al-qasim, al-zahrawi, albucasis, ancient, andalusia, arab, art, artistic, celebrities, celebrity, century, chemist, chromolithograph, ciencia, cordoba, discovery, doctor, drawing, famous, figuier, historic, history, hombres, hospital, ibn, idr, khalaf, knowledge, la, learning, lithograph, lithography, louis, luis, middle, muslim, nineteenth, painting, people, physician, portrait, research, science, scientific, scientist, scientists, surgeon, surgery, sus