Subhizade Abdulaziz ( ota, عبدالعزیز صبحی زاده), also known as Subhizade Abdulaziz Effendi ( ota, عبدالعزیز صبحی زاده افندی) (died 1782/1783), was an Ottoman chief physician (''hekimbashi'') of the 18th century. A son of a certain historian named "Subhi" (hence, ''Subhizade''), he worked at the court in

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. Abdulaziz was proficient in

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, and

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. He translated the Persian works ''Asjar o asmar'' of 'Ala' al-Din 'Ali Shah Khwarazmi al-Bukhari, and ''Borhan al-kefaya'' of Ali ibn Mohammad al-Sharif al-Bakri into Turkish. He also wrote two works in Turkish (translated from French and Latin) on

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, translations of works written by

Hermann Boerhaave Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738Underwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." ''The British Medical Journal'' 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20395297.) was a Dutch botanist ...

. One of these translations was completed in 1768 with the assistance of Thomas von Herbert, an Austrian interpreter, whereas the other one, Boerhaave's ''Aphorisma'', was completed in 1771. Apart from just translating Boerhaave's "ideas", Abdulaziz also tried to "reconcile and harmonize" these efforts of the Dutchman with the existing traditional

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. Later, Abdulaziz fell out with incumbent sultan

Abdul Hamid I Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid I ( ota, عبد الحميد اول, ''`Abdü’l-Ḥamīd-i evvel''; tr, Birinci Abdülhamid; 20 March 1725 – 7 April 1789) was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning over the Ottoman Empire from 1774 to ...

(1773-1789); he was banished to Istanköy (Kos), where he lived until his death.

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