Trauma management in ancient Greece: value of surgical principles through the years.
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."
Pikoulis
Emmanouil A
EA
Second Department of Surgery, General Hospital Asclepion, Voulas, Athens, Greece.
Petropoulos
John C B
JC
Tsigris
Christos
C
Pikoulis
Nikolaos
N
Leppäniemi
Ari K
AK
Pavlakis
Emmanouil
E
Gavrielatou
Evgenia
E
Burris
David
D
Bastounis
Elias
E
Rich
Norman M
NM
D002516:Ceramics / Q000266:history; D005197:Famous Persons; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D018645:Greek World / Q000266:history; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery