[On the ancient and magical lesions in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries].

At the beginning of the Renaissance magical, witchcraft and demonological medicine still played a large role in the poor healing ability of chronic leg ulcers. This included the general administration of magical potions and topical application. An example of the manipulation of the whole body by the devil was the Abracadabra text from Johann Christoph Bitterkraut in the year 1677.

The treatment of deep vein thrombosis in the pelvis and leg.

Introduction: Deep vein thrombosis is associated with a risk of pulmonary embolism and post thrombotic syndrome (PTS).

Methods: Selective literature review with special reference to the American College of Chest Physicians' current guidelines and the German S2 interdisciplinary guideline.

Results And Discussion: The most important therapeutic measure is prompt and adequate anticoagulation with heparin or fondaparinux.

[Puerperal sepsis in the 19th century and Trendlenburg's ligature of the internal iliacal vein].

With the establishment of institutions for child delivery in city hospitals and with incorporation of routine autopsy into the field of activity of assistants at birth, childbed fever spread epidemically and was fatal in most cases. Nearly every third woman in childbed died of puerperal sepsis in the Hôtel Dieu in Paris and in the Erste Wiener Gebärklinik in Vienna. The tragic fate of obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis began here, he recognized disease transmission from pus and body parts by physicians during the process of delivery.

Invasive therapeutic options in truncal varicosity of the great saphenous vein.

It is known from current pathophysiology that disease stages I and II of truncal varicosity of the great saphenous vein do not cause changes in venous pressure on dynamic phlebodynamometry. This is possibly also the case for mild cases of the disease in stage III. In pronounced cases of stage III and all cases of stage IV, however, venous hypertension occurs which triggers the symptoms of secondary deep venous insufficiency and all the complications of chronic venous insufficiency.