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Salazar, Christine F. Salazar, C. F.
ISBN: 9789004114791
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Brill Academic Publishers
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In this investigation of the treatment of battle trauma in antiquity, 'treatment' is used in a double sense, both as actual medical treatment and literary 'treatment' in non-medical sources. Part One deals with the practical, medical aspects of the topic…
In this investigation of the treatment of battle trauma in antiquity, 'treatment' is used in a double sense, both as actual medical treatment and literary 'treatment' in non-medical sources. Part I deals with the practical, medical aspects of the topic: the types of wounds likely to result from a battle, their surgical and pharmacological treatment, the question of medical services in ancient armies, medical terminology and the availability of medical knowledge. Part II discusses the use of scenes of wounding and wound treatment in literature, and Part III is a survey of the archaeological evidence. This is the first monograph to examine the topic in all its different aspects; it should be of interest to classicists, medical historians and military historians.
| ISBN | 9004114793 | | Pages | 302 | | ISBN13 | 9789004114791
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers | | Weight (grammes) | 749 | | Imprint | BRILL ACADEMIC PUB | | Published in | Leiden | | Format | Hardback | | Series ISSN | 22 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 2000 | | Series title | Studies in Ancient Medicine | | Library of Congress | 99089213 | | Height (mm) | 245 | | DEWEY | 616.980 | | Width (mm) | 166 |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Abbreviations | | | | | | List of Illustrations | | | | | | Illustrations | | | | | | Introduction | | | | Pt. 1 | | Wounds and Their Treatment | | | | Ch. 1 | | Sources | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Surgical Aspects of Wound Treatment | | 9 | | Ch. 3 | | Pharmaka | | 54 | | Ch. 4 | | Medical Services in Armies | | 68 | | Ch. 5 | | Expert and Layman | | 84 | | Pt. 2 | | Wounding as a Code | | | | Ch. 6 | | The Iliad | | 126 | | Ch. 7 | | Beautiful Death; the Adjustment of an Ideal | | 159 | | Ch. 8 | | Alexander the Great | | 184 | | Ch. 9 | | Epilogue | | 209 | | Pt. 3 | | Non-Textual Material | | | | Ch. 10 | | The Archaeological Evidence | | 230 | | | | Conclusion | | 248 | | | | Bibliography | | 250 | | | | Index locorum | | 277 | | | | General Index | | 297 |
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