Early Color Illustrations of Psychiatric Treatment Methods, as Drawn by Physician Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu (1385-1470)

摘要

Srerefeddin Sabuncuoglu lived and practiced medicine in Amasya in northern Anatolia in what is now Turkey during the 15th century. He is the author of the first known illustrated surgery textbook, Cerrahiyetil'l Haniyye (Imperial Surgery) (1, 2), which survives as only three copies. Besides several original contributions noted by several authors, Sabuncuoglu's book is unique for the revolutionary illustrations used to show details of the surgical procedures described. During the previous prevailing period of Islamic medicine, all medical texts were written without any illustrations of the human body because the depiction of such figures was prohibited by contemporary thinking.