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Geoffrey L. Lewis, Martin S. Spink, Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine / Abū al-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawī
Language: English
Published by Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London, 1973
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United KingdomJoseph Burridge Books
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xv, 850 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. "On Surgery and Instruments: A Definitive Edition of the Arabic Text with English Translation and Commentary" is the seminal 1973 scholarly publication by M.S. Spink and G.L. Lewis. It translates the 30th and final treatise of the Kitab al-Tasrif, the monumental 10th-century medical encyclopedia by the celebrated Arab physician and surgeon Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucasis).
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- On surgery and instruments : a definitive edition of the Arabic text [Publications of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, v. 12]
- Author
- Geoffrey L. Lewis, Martin S. Spink, Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine / Abū al-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawī
- Publisher
- Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0520015320
- ISBN 13
- 9780520015326
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 2,290.641 grams
- Seller catalogs
- Islam, Medical, Philosophy