Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu

Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385–1468) was an Ottoman surgeon and physician who spent his career at the Darüşşifa hospital in Amasya and directed it for fourteen years. He began studying medicine at seventeen, in a city that was a centre of commerce and culture in the early Ottoman Empire.

In 1465, aged about eighty, he completed the Cerrahiyyetü'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), the first illustrated surgical atlas written in Turkish. Its three chapters carry his own miniatures, including the first depictions of female surgeons. Drawing on al-Zahrawi's al-Taṣrīf, he added his own techniques, among them ligating the temporal artery for migraine.