Bloodletting, Cupping, and Leech Therapy in Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin’s Cerrāḥiyye-i İlkhāniyye

Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin is a Turkish surgeon who lived in Anatolia in the fifteenth century. With his work entitled Cerrāḥiyye-i İlkhāniyye, light is shed on the history of Turkish surgery in the fifteenth century. This work also has an important place in the history of world surgery due to its illustrations of surgical instruments and surgeries. The aim of this study is to examine the information provided by Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin about bloodletting, cupping and leech therapy in Cerrāḥiyye-i İlkhāniyye.