Medicine and art: facial palsy depicted in archaic Greek art on Crete.
A small earthenware statuette was evacuated from the votive-depot of acropolis of Gortys, an ancient town in South-Crete/Greece. This ex-voto is dated approximately 7th to 6th century BC and very probably represents some symptoms of a stroke, especially the left facial palsy and the contracture of the left arm. Since the Minoan time until today, people of Crete have been offering ex-votos to gods or saints to ask for help in specific diseases.
Pirsig
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Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Ulm, Germany.
Helidonis
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Velegrakis
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D000328:Adult; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D012613:Sculpture / Q000266:history*