Summary: Composed by a physician from fifteenth-century Anatolia named Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu, Cirahiyyetü'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery) is a unique illustrated surgery manual the sheds light onto medical practice and experimentation in the early Ottoman Empire. Sabuncuoğlu's manual describes treatment that range from medical to cosmetic dealing with virtually every part of the human body. In this podcast, we unveil our image collection based on the manual and give some background regarding Sabuncuoğlu and Ottoman medicine.
