• Ahmet Aciduman, Uygur Er, and Tibet Altuğ.
• Department of History of Medicine and Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, and The Second Neurosurgery Clinic, Dişkapi Yildirim beyazit educational and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. aciduman@medicine.ankara.edu.tr
• World Neurosurg. 2013 Jan 1;79(1):192-7.

ObjectiveThe aim of this article is to introduce a great physician of the late Ottoman period and his writings on spinal anatomy.MethodsThe article presents chapters related to the anatomy of vertebra and the vertebral column in the book of Şanizade Ataullah Mehmed, Mir'āt al-Abdān fı Tashrıḥ-i A'ḍāi'l-Insān (Mirror of the Bodies in the Dissection of the Members of the Human Body).ResultsWorks of Şanizade are viewed as important landmarks in Turkish medical history. Anatomy education in Turkey can be divided into four historic periods and the second period is called the Şanizade Period (1816-1827). This period leads up to the opening of the first modern medical school in Turkey on March 14, 1827.ConclusionsThe most important characteristic of Şanizade's work is that it is the first illustrated anatomy book printed in the Ottoman Age, and the value of the work is shown by Şanizade being one of the originators of medical terms in Ottoman Medicine.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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