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EL ZAHRAWI
EL ZAHRAWI is believed to have been born in the city of El-Zahra, six miles northwest of Cordoba, sometime between 936 and 940. It was here that he lived, studied, taught and practised medicie and sugery until shortly before his death in about 1013, two years after the sacking of El- Zahra. It is clear that from El Zahrawi's life history and form his writings that he devoted his entire life and genius to the advancement of medicine as a whole and surgery in particular. El Zahrawi wrote a medical encyclopedia spanning 30 volumes which included sections on surgery, medicine, orthopedics, ophthalmology, pharmacology, nutrition ect. This book was known as At-Tasrif and contained data that El-Zahrawi had accumulated during a career that spanned almost 50 years of raining, teaching and practice.
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