. Bulletin. Science. hi' in inltiibciomiiTi. Infiillaclo vcro tua vcl oiforiiin \c\ hr dicamcntorum in aurem, cum hujus fornix inrtrunit-nto i^it; n^ fii;iit vities. Ex nrgento vc] sre id conficiasi inferne sngu^Dni (in iiio loramcn lie parviiinj ampluin et Jatiim a parte lup^noti, lie fi vis Figure 8.—Syringe with metal plunger-pump. Top, from original Arabic manuscript (Ali 2854), courtesy Suleymaniye Umumi Kiitiiphanesi Mudurlugu. Bottom, from Channing, Albucasis. Al-Zahrawl frequently introduces his treatises with brief instructive and sometimes informative preludes. However, in
. Bulletin. Science. hi' in inltiibciomiiTi. Infiillaclo vcro tua vcl oiforiiin \c\ hr dicamcntorum in aurem, cum hujus fornix inrtrunit-nto i^it; n^ fii;iit vities. Ex nrgento vc] sre id conficiasi inferne sngu^Dni (in iiio loramcn lie parviiinj ampluin et Jatiim a parte lup^noti, lie fi vis Figure 8.—Syringe with metal plunger-pump. Top, from original Arabic manuscript (Ali 2854), courtesy Suleymaniye Umumi Kiitiiphanesi Mudurlugu. Bottom, from Channing, Albucasis. Al-Zahrawl frequently introduces his treatises with brief instructive and sometimes informative preludes. However, in launching the last treatise of al- Tasrlf he expounded in a most interesting and illuminating manner the status of surgery during his time. He also explains the reasons that forced him to write on this topic and why he wished to include, as he did, pre- cautions, advice, instructional notes, and beautifully illustrated surgical drawings. For example, the prel- ude to the treatise mentions four incidents that he witnessed, all ending with tragic results because of the ignorance of physicians who attempted to operate on patients without the proper training in anatomy and surgical manipulation. "For if one does not have the knowledge of anatomy," al-Zahrawi protests, then ". . he is apt to fall in errors that lead to death as I have seen it happen to ; '^ Al-Zahrawi divides his surgical treatise into three sections (abwab). In the first section (56 chapters)'* he elaborates upon the uses and disadvantages of '^ See introduction to the treatise; for example, Bes. 502, fol. 522v-523v and Vel. 2491, fol. 104r-105v. See also K. P. J. Sprengel, Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde, Halle, 1823, vol. 2, pp. 449-451. George J. Fisher, in "Abul- Casem Chalaf Ibn Abbas al-ZahrawI, Commonly Called Albucasis," Annals of Anatomy anf/^ur^cy, July-December, 1883, vol. 8, pp. 24—25, gives a translation of only the first part of the introdu
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