TY - JOUR
T1 - Trauma Management in Ancient Greece
T2 - Value of Surgical Principles through the Years
AU - Pikoulis, Emmanouil A.
AU - Petropoulos, John C.B.
AU - Tsigris, Christos
AU - Pikoulis, Nikolaos
AU - Leppäniemi, Ari K.
AU - Pavlakis, Emmanouil
AU - Gavrielatou, Evgenia
AU - Burris, David
AU - Bastounis, Elias
AU - Rich, Norman M.
PY - 2004/4
Y1 - 2004/4
N2 - This article surveys in an interdisciplinary fashion the evolution of ancient Greek medicine and traumatology in particular. In sounding out the key methods and themes of Greek medicine, we cite a range of medical treatises and correlate them to the rich evidence of ancient Greek art (iconography), which often is explicit in its depiction of the management of disease and of trauma in particular. The article begins its survey from Homer, our first source of medical information, and highlights the pioneering work of Hippocrates and the secularized professional guild of the "sons of Aesclepius".
AB - This article surveys in an interdisciplinary fashion the evolution of ancient Greek medicine and traumatology in particular. In sounding out the key methods and themes of Greek medicine, we cite a range of medical treatises and correlate them to the rich evidence of ancient Greek art (iconography), which often is explicit in its depiction of the management of disease and of trauma in particular. The article begins its survey from Homer, our first source of medical information, and highlights the pioneering work of Hippocrates and the secularized professional guild of the "sons of Aesclepius".
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U2 - 10.1007/s00268-003-6931-x
DO - 10.1007/s00268-003-6931-x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14994140
AN - SCOPUS:11144354253
SN - 0364-2313
VL - 28
SP - 425
EP - 430
JO - World Journal of Surgery
JF - World Journal of Surgery
IS - 4
ER -