The Anatomy Charts of the Arabs are a collection of
drawings described by
Karl Sudhoff
Karl Sudhoff (26 November 1853, Frankfurt am Main – 8 October 1938, Salzwedel) was a German historian of medicine, helping establish that field as a legitimate discipline for research and teaching within faculties of medicine.
Sudhoff taught f ...
on 1908.
[Sudhoff Karl: Die fünf anatomischen Abbildung der Baseler Provenzalischen Handschrift, Leipzig: Barth, 1908 p 28.] Four charts (the
skeleton, the
muscles, the
blood vessel
The blood vessels are the components of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body. These vessels transport blood cells, nutrients, and oxygen to the tissues of the body. They also take waste and carbon dioxide away ...
s, the
organs
In biology, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function. In the hierarchy of life, an organ lies between tissue and an organ system. Tissues are formed from same type cells to act together in a f ...
) are found in a 264-folio
illustrated
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manuscript
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, N° “500-510/...Ah/1110/n14” in The Sami I Haddad Memorial Library - Rancho Palos Verdes Branch and N° “90” in the Catalogue of the
Arabic
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medical
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manuscripts in the
Library
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of Dr.
Sami Ibrahim Haddad
, honorific_suffix = M.D., I.S.S., F.A.C.S., G.M.B.
, image = shaddad.jpg
, imagesize = 200px
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Jaffa, Palestine
, death_date =
, death_place = Beirut, Lebanon
, occupation = Doctor, Surgeon
, n ...
written by Farid Haddad and HH Biesterfeld (Aleppo 1984). Parts of the texts were written in Arabic and other sections in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
. The
scribe was either faJraldÿn mahAbAdÿ or muHammad Cÿrÿn; both are unknown
physician
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s mentioned in the text. The copy was made in
Patna
Patna (
), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...
,
Bihar
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,
India
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sometime between 944 and 1110 AH.
Gallery
Image:organs.png, The Organs.
See also
*
Human anatomy
*
History of anatomy
The history of anatomy extends from the earliest examinations of sacrificial victims to the sophisticated analyses of the body performed by modern anatomists and scientists. Written descriptions of human organs and parts can be traced back thous ...
*
Medicine in medieval Islam
In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine" is the Science in the medieval Islamic world, science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic language, Arabic, the ''lingua franca'' of Islamic civilization.
Islam ...
References
Human anatomy
Medical works of the medieval Islamic world
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