HIST 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hippocratic Oath, Geophagia, Mouthwash
9 Jun 2018
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HIST 449- Mar 15
Surgery
Part 1: Finishing up Drugs
Thinking with Photos-Jones and Hall
• Not just the earth, but also the water from the stream (dissolve alum?)
• Not just raw materials, but also he processing, which enriched the earth
• Alum= septic (dries excess secretions, stanches blood), antibacterial, used as
mouthwash, for purifying water
• But what about the claims re: poison? The religious rites? Geophagy?
Part 2: Introduce Surgery
• Ancient surgery thought of itself as not cutting into the body, but as repairing
the body
• Most of the common everyday surgery was like getting an arrow out of a
thigh (one example)
• Important in repairing flesh
• No anesthesia or antisepsis
Defining Surgery
Work of the hand
• Hippocratic wound surgery: reduction of fractures and dislocations,
treatment of wounds an ulcers with or without instruments
• Cheirugia
• On or near the surface of the body or in accessible orifice such as the mouth
• Continuity of skin, flesh and bones
• Hellenistic and later: operative surgery (genito-urinary, ophthalmological,
obstetric)
• High risk, high value techniques that can save or vastly improve lives
The Knife
• In Hippocratic oath= specialist high risk invasive operations
• Bloodletting
• No real word for surgeon in antiquity
• We have a lot of archeological surgery equipment
Wound surgery
• Hippocratic surgery
• Salazar on wound treatment
• An excursis on instruments
• Arrow-removal problem
Operative surgery
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Document Summary
Part 2: introduce surgery: ancient surgery thought of itself as not cutting into the body, but as repairing the body. Important in repairing flesh: no anesthesia or antisepsis, most of the common everyday surgery was like (cid:498)getting an arrow out of a thigh(cid:499) (one example) Work of (cid:494)the hand(cid:495: hippocratic wound surgery: reduction of fractures and dislocations, treatment of wounds an ulcers with or without instruments. In hippocratic oath= specialist high risk invasive operations: bloodletting, no real word for surgeon in antiquity, we have a lot of archeological surgery equipment. Wound surgery: hippocratic surgery, salazar on wound treatment, an excursis on instruments, arrow-removal problem. Hippocratic wound surgery: the procedural essays: fractures and joints- pedagogical structure, haemeroids. Flesh wounds: ancient writers distinguish wounds to flesh from wounds to the bones. There are flesh wounds, wounds to muscle, tendon and nerve are considered more dangerous: this is usually the result of a sword cut as opposed to a thrust.
