 In 1000, Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936-1013), an Arab who lived in Al-Andalus, published the 30-volume "Kitab al-Tasrif", the first illustrated work on surgery.He never performed a tracheotomy, but he did treat a slave girl who had cut her own throat in a suicide attempt.Al-Zahrawi (known to Europeans as "Albucasis") sewed up the wound and the girl recovered, thereby proving that an incision in the larynx could heal.