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John Tytler

جون تايتلر

Notable figure 1787–1837 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 478; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 365 · Second source: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, catalogue record: Anis al-musharrihin = The Anatomist's vade-mecum, by Robert Hooper, translated into Arabic by John Tytler

From the United Kingdom; worked in India

Field: Medical terminology

Affiliation

Surgeon; translated anatomy books into Arabic

Biography

A Scottish surgeon of the East India Company, he was superintendent of the Native Medical Institution in Calcutta and supplied the Calcutta Madrasa with Arabic translations of European medical books. He translated Robert Hooper's Anatomist's Vade-mecum into Arabic as Anis al-musharrihin (Calcutta, 1830), adding a list of English terms with their Arabic equivalents, and edited Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic version of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates (Calcutta, 1832).