[Medical science at the time of the Ummayad Califs of Cordoba: Al-Zahrâwî and Ibn Wâfid, knowledgeable Andalusian phamacologists translated for the Christian West].

The Latin translations of major Arabian texts have largely contributed to the rise of medical sciences in christian Western during the middle age. Among the pharmacologist Andalusian erudites who have been translated into Latin language, for example by Gerard de Crémone, Al-Zahrâwî (Albucasis) and Ibn Wâfid are references. Al-Zahrâwî has written about materia medica in several books included in his thirty volume's encyclopaedia: "al-Tasriîf", Ibn Wâfid has given to the medical world two remarkable treatises; a really formulary "kitâb al-wisâd fi l-tibb" though a book of the simple drugs, "al-kitâb fî al-adwiya al-mufrada".