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Al-Zahrawi
Al-Zahrawi, known in Latin as Abulcasis, was a physician of al-Andalus who worked at Córdoba and is regarded as one of the greatest surgeons of the medieval world. His medical encyclopedia, the Kitab al-Tasrif, ends with a treatise on surgery describing operations and illustrating some two hundred instruments. Translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona, it was used in European medicine for centuries.
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