the primary source on surgery in Europe for the next 500 years, and as the historian of medicine, Arturo Castiglioni, has put it: al-Zahrawi's treatise "in surgery held the same authority as did the Canon of Avicenna in medicine".

Manuscripts

* Patna Manuscripts Two manuscripts are known from the archives of Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library

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