Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu

Illustration from the “Surgery of the Empire”: Şerefeddin treats a patient with the branding iron.

Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (* around 1385 ; † 1468 , Ottoman صابونجی اوغلی شرف الدّین) Was a ilchanisch -osmanischer surgeon and medical writer. He lived in Amasya / Black Sea region in the Ottoman Empire .

life and work

Description of two circumcision knives from the Cerrâhiyye-i Ilhâniyye

In the early days of the Ottoman Empire, Amasya was a center for trade and the arts. Şerefeddin worked and taught as a hospital doctor in the Amasya hospital, which was founded in 1308 by the Seljuks (or Rum Seljuks ).

Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu was the author of the encyclopedic surgical work Cerrâhiyye-i Ilhâniyye /جراحیهٔ إلخانیه / 'Surgery of the Empire, Surgery of the Ilkhanes ,' Imperial Surgery Book '', the first illustrated surgical textbook written in Ottoman-Turkish , written in 1465 when Şerefeddin was already around 80 years old. The book is divided into three chapters, richly illustrated and covers a total of 191 topics on 412 pages.

The "surgery of the empire" was based essentially on the last treatise in the Kitāb at-Taṣrīf of Abulcasis . From today's perspective, an independent scientific achievement is the probable knowledge of pneumothorax and its treatment. Şerefeddin also describes a method to be carried out with a special scalpel ( mibza ) to treat hypospadias and ligature of the temporal artery to treat migraines . In the sections on neurosurgery , women are also shown as surgeons for the first time. Another innovation is the attempt to treat sciatica .

Preserved manuscripts

Three original manuscripts have survived, two of which are ascribed to Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu himself. One is in the Millet Library in Istanbul (No. 79/353), one in the Çapa Medical History Department of the University of Istanbul (TY, No. 263), the third is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (Suppl., Turcs, No. 693).

Work editions

Cerrahiye-I Ilhyniye. Istanbul (Fatih National library, No. 79) 1465 (manuscript).
P. Huard, Mirko D. Grmek : Le premier manuscrit chirurgical turc rédigé par Charaf ed-Din (1465). Paris 1960 (140 miniatures).

literature

Arman Dizdar [= Armin Dietz]: The Turkish doctor Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385–1472) and his services to dentistry. (Medical dissertation Würzburg) Wellm, Pattensen 1981. ISBN 978-3-921456-48-4 .
Sary N. Büyünkünal: Sarafeddin Sabuncuoglu, the author of the earliest pediatric surgical atlas: Cerrahiye-I Ilhaniye. In: J. Pediatr. Surg. Volume 26, 1991, pp. 1148-1151.
AS Unver: Serafeddin Sabucuoglu: Kitabül Cerrahiye-I Ilhaniye (Cerrahname). Y. Ü Typ Tarihi Enstitüsü, Adet., Istanbul 1939, Volume 12, pp. 870-1465.

Individual evidence

^ Friedrun R. Hau: Seljuk hospitals. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1318.
↑ Friedrun R. Hau: Ṣereffedin Saboncuoğlu. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. 2005, p. 1321.
↑ SO Kaya, M Karatepe, T Tok, G Onem, N Dursunoglu, I Goksin: Were pneumothorax and its management known in 15th-century anatolia? . In: Texas Heart Institute Journal . 36, No. 2, September 2009, pp. 152-153. PMID 19436812 . PMC 2676596 (free full text).
↑ Armin Paul Raster: Results of the hypospadias corrections in the years 2003–2005, taking into account the use of transurethral urinary diversion using a “dripping stent”. Medical dissertation, Munich 2009, p. 15.
↑ G. Bademci: First illustrations of female "Neurosurgeons" in the 15th century by Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu . In: Neurocirugía , 17, 2006, pp. 162-165.
↑ Gulsat Aygen Aykut Karasu, Ali Ender Ofluoglu, Glenn Pait, Halil Toplamaoglu: The first Anatolian contribution to treatment of sciatica by Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu in the 15th century . In: Surgical neurology . 71, No. 1, January 2009, ISSN 0090-3019 , pp. 130-133. doi : 10.1016 / j.surneu.2007.09.007 . PMID 18291473 .

personal data
SURNAME	Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ottoman doctor and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1385
DATE OF DEATH	after 1468
Place of death	Amasya

[1] Friedrun R. Hau: Seljuk hospitals. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1318.

[2] Friedrun R. Hau: Ṣereffedin Saboncuoğlu. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. 2005, p. 1321.

[Kaya2009-3] SO Kaya, M Karatepe, T Tok, G Onem, N Dursunoglu, I Goksin: Were pneumothorax and its management known in 15th-century anatolia? . In: Texas Heart Institute Journal . 36, No. 2, September 2009, pp. 152-153. PMID 19436812 . PMC 2676596 (free full text).

[4] Armin Paul Raster: Results of the hypospadias corrections in the years 2003–2005, taking into account the use of transurethral urinary diversion using a “dripping stent”. Medical dissertation, Munich 2009, p. 15.

[5] G. Bademci: First illustrations of female "Neurosurgeons" in the 15th century by Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu . In: Neurocirugía , 17, 2006, pp. 162-165.

[6] Gulsat Aygen Aykut Karasu, Ali Ender Ofluoglu, Glenn Pait, Halil Toplamaoglu: The first Anatolian contribution to treatment of sciatica by Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu in the 15th century . In: Surgical neurology . 71, No. 1, January 2009, ISSN 0090-3019 , pp. 130-133. doi : 10.1016 / j.surneu.2007.09.007 . PMID 18291473 .