✦________[ Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ]________✦ Some of Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawis influence in Europe :- The French surgeon Guy de Chauliac in his book Great Surgery, completed in about 1363, quoted At-Tasrif over 200 times. Jaques Delechamps (1513-1588), another French surgeon, made extensive use of At-Tasrif in his elaborate commentary, confirming the great prestige of El Zahrawi throughout the Middle Ages and up to the Renaissance. The street in Córdoba where he lived is named in his honour as Calle Albucasis. On this street he lived in house no. 6, which is preserved today by the Spanish Tourist Board with a bronze plaque (awarded in January 1977) which reads: This was the house where Abu-Qasim lived. According to Dr. Campbell (History of Arab Medicine), Al Zahrawi’s principles of medical science surpassed those of Galen in the European medical curriculum. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi is an ideal example for the contributions of Muslim scholars, and their influence on the science, geography, mathematics, philosophy, and medicine of later civilizations.
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