A medical text written in the old Anatolian Turkish: Kâmilü's-sınâ¡ati't-tıbbiyye’

Abstract

This article contains new remarks and assesments to remove the ambiguities appearing in the translated version of a Turkish medical book “Kâmilü's-Sınâ¡ati't-Tıbbiyye” which is partly translated into modern Turkish. This paper focuses on some translation deficiencies or mistakes that started with Adıvar's assesments and continued by followers, Umur Bey, the period of the translation, an examination of the Istanbul copy that is the completed version of the translation with a criticism of formerly proposed ideas on the translation. With this study, it is aimed to support the maintainance of the studies on the history of medicine on a sounder basis. © 2017 Hacettepe University 1. All rights reserved.