Linear B Mycenaean Greek and medical nomenclature.

Childs Nerv Syst

Department of Medicine, Section of Anatomy and History of Medicine, University of Udine, P.le Kolbe 3, 33100, Udine, Italy.

Published: December 2023

This brief report is intended to call attention to the fact that we use some very old terms in our daily medical speaking that were in use about 3500 years ago and were probably uttered as early as the late Bronze Age by Achilles, Agamennon and the other Homeric heroes outside the walls of Troy.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00381-022-05740-zDOI Listing

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