De chirurgia. Arabice et Latine.

Cura Johannis Channing, natu etr civitate Londinensis. Oxford, 1778.

"The surgical section of Albucasis's Altasrif, the first rational, complete and illustrated treatise on surgery and surgical instruments. During the Middle Ages it was the leading textbook on surgery until superseded by Saliceto" (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman)..

"Author and surgeon, born at El-Zahara near Cordova and appointed physician to Abdar Rahman III. He wrote an encyclopedia of medicine and surgery, Altasrif. The surgical portion was published separately and became the first independent illustrated work on the subject. It contained illustrations of a remarkable array of surgical instruments and described operations of fractures, dislocations, bladder stones, gangrene and other conditions. It replaced Paul of Aegina's Epitome as a standard work and remained as the most used textbook of surgery for nearly 500 years" (A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, Anton Sebastian).

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