Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu: Forgotten Vignette of 600 Years

Şereffeddin Sabuncuoglu (1385-1465) was a surgeon who lived in Amasya in Ottoman Era. He was a good calligrapher and illustrator also as we saw from his works he could speak Arabic, Persian and Greek. He wrote the first treatise with colored illustrations entitled “Cerrahiyet’ul-Haniyye” with his own drawings. Mistakenly considered to be a translation of al-Zahrawi’s book but a careful analysis shows that there are 137 different observations and suggestions. He made several contributions in proctology, cancer treatment and neurosurgery. This report aims to investigate his contributions anatomy.