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01-11-2017 | Cover Editorial
Anatomy of cranial nerves in the first Turkish illustrated anatomy manuscript
Authors:
İlhan Bahşi, Mustafa Orhan, Murat Çetkin, Begümhan Turhan, Semih Sayın
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Child's Nervous System
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Issue 11/2017
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Excerpt
Teşrih-ül Ebdan ve Tercümânı Kıbale-i Feylesûfan was the first Turkish illustrated anatomy manuscript written by Şemseddîn-i İtâḳî in the seventeenth century.
Teşrih is an Arabic word which has various meanings such as dissection of corpse, autopsy, anatomy, and skeleton [
1]. This manuscript, the first illustrated anatomy book of Ottoman Period, was written during the period of Sultan Murat IV, who was the sultan of that period [
2,
3]. General opinion is that this manuscript was written in 1632 [
4‐
7]. …