Note 8 — 10th-Century Surgical Treatise

Lucien Leclerc, La Chirurgie d’Abulcasis, Paris, 1861 (hereinafter referred to as Leclerc, Abulcasis). This excellent French version was first published in a series of articles in Gazette Médicale de l’Algérie, and seems influenced by Channing’s edition more than Leclerc admits. Leclerc consulted several Arabic copies of the treatise as well as Latin and vernacular translations, but only a few of these Arabic manuscripts are considered complete. The Arabic manuscripts studied for the present article are not the same as those used by Leclerc. See also Leclerc’s monumental work, Histoire de la Médecine Arabe, Paris, 1876, vol. 1, pp. 453-457.