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The Asclepian art of medicine and surgery.
Int Orthop
October 2020
First Department of Orthopaedics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, 41 Ventouri Street, Holargos, 15562, Athens, Greece.
Purpose: To summarize the available information from mythology, archeology, and classical literature aiming to compose the image of Asclepieia, Asclepius, and the Asclepiads, and to depict the atmosphere of medicine in its infancy.
Method: A thorough literature search was undertaken in PubMed and Google Scholar as well as in physical books in libraries to summarize the pharmacies and pain practices used for trauma in ancient Greece.
Results: The antiquity of medicine is confirmed by the worship of God Apollo and Asclepius, who were the persons who possessed the knowledge of medicine and surgery, and delivered it to mortals.
[History of tracheotomy].
Otolaryngol Pol
December 2007
Klinika Otolaryngologii i Onkologii Laryngologicznej II Katedry Otolaryngologii UM w Lodzi.
The present notion - tracheotomy, originates from the Latin words trachea - windpipe, which comes from the combination of Latin "tracheia" and Greek "arteria" indicating an uneven road, and "tome" - cut. Procedures of pharyngotomy have a long-lasting history. First similar operations were found on the ancient Egyptian clay tablets dating back to 3600 BC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAsclepiad's cock: a patient-physician association is a useful tool for educational programs in nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation.
Transplant Proc
November 2004
Nephrology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
Background: The negative impact of the mass media, the lack of information, and the request for in-depth knowledge are the basis for the present need for educational programs on transplantation, brain death, and chronic kidney diseases end-stage renal disease; (ESRD). The aim of the present article was to critically review the activities performed by Il Gallo di Esculapio, a nonprofit association, in the education on the different phases of ESRD. The associates are physicians and patients, and the activities are integrated institutionally.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[The Hippocratic Oath: source of medical ethics].
Presse Med
January 2002
SAU-SAMU-SMUR, Centre hospitalier de Guéret, Avenue de la Sénatorie, F 23000 Guéret.
The Hippocratic Oath is twenty-five centuries old. Probably drawn-up by Hippocrates himself, it intervenes in a particular cultural, political and religious context: that of Greece at the time of Pericles. It guaranteed the Asclepiad doctors of the continuity of their knowledge within their community.
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