• World Neurosurg · Mar 2019

    Review Biography Historical Article

    Did Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) postulate before Vesalius that liquid collects in ventricles in the hydrocephalus?

    • Ahmet Aciduman, Önder İlgili, Çağatay Aşkit, and Kemal Tuzcu.
    • Faculty of Medicine, Department of History of Medicine and Ethics, Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address: aciduman@medicine.ankara.edu.tr.
    • World Neurosurg. 2019 Mar 1; 123: 363-370.

    ObjectiveThis study aimed to present and evaluate the part of Avenzoar's Liber Teisir that pertains to hydrocephalus. Avenzoar was an Andalusian physician prominent in the history of medicine because of the broadness of his observations and original methods. His most important work is recognized to be the Al-Taysīr fī al-Mudāwāt wa al-Tadbīr (On Preventive Regimen and Treatment), and its Latin version, Alteisir scilicet regiminis et medelae, which was in use for centuries in Europe.MethodsThe Arabic (Rabat, Morocco, in 1991) and Latin (Venice, Italy, in 1530) versions of Avenzoar's work were perused, relevant sections were separately translated into English, and both translations were then compared. An English version was prepared and is given in our results.ResultsThe location of liquid collection was described as the anterior ventricles of the brain and around the brain.ConclusionsAvenzoar might have noted one of the earliest records on the clinical state called idiopathic adult hydrocephalus and postulated liquid collection in the ventricles of the brain in hydrocephalus before Vesalius.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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