Medicine
The surgeon of Córdoba drew his instruments
Al-Zahrawi’s great medical work ends with surgery, and with drawings of the tools a surgeon should own.
Writer, medicine
Layla Haddad
Layla trained as a surgeon before turning to the history of medicine. She writes in English and Arabic.
3 stories by Layla
Medicine
Why the Canon of Medicine was taught for six centuries
Ibn Sina’s Canon was clear, complete and well ordered. Universities kept teaching it long after his death.