Channing , John , c 1703-1775 , apothecary and Arabist Zahravi , Abul-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al- , 936-1013 , surgeon x al-Zahravi , Abul-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas x Albucasis x Abulcasis

Channing , John , c 1703-1775 , apothecary and Arabist Zahravi , Abul-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al- , 936-1013 , surgeon x al-Zahravi , Abul-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas x Albucasis x Abulcasis

Abul-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahravi, known in the West as Albucasis or Abulcasis, was born in 936. He was an Andalusian physician, surgeon, chemist and scientist. He is considered the father of modern surgery and is famous for his original breakthroughs in surgery, his invention of several surgical instruments, and for the Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty volume encyclopedia of medical practices. He died in 1013.

John Channing was born in London, in c 1703. He was apprenticed to his father, also John Channing, an apothecary, in 1718. He purchased premises in Essex Street, off the Strand, and maintained an apothecary shop until his death in 1775. He was accomplished in translating and editing Arabic texts, and translated the Al-Zahravi surgical volumes into Latin. They were published in 1778.