Browsing by Subject "art"
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Aretaeus of cappadocia (ca lst-3rd century AD): Views on hepatic cancer
(2016)Aretaeus lived in an era when cancer was known to be a fatal disease. He had understood both liver's capacity to regenerate, and its vital role for the body's homeostasis, and proposed the treatment to confront hepatic ... -
Daniel Mollière (1848-1890), the French anatomist and surgeon, and his encounters with nosocomial infections in the operating theatre
(2016)Daniel Mollière, was a French anatomist and surgeon, born in Lyon, who succeeded in his short life in making his mark in surgery. He was a prolific writer who left a series of medical treatises and a committed surgeon who ... -
John C. Carapanayiotis (1909–1999): The greek radiologist and pioneer of physiatry in Greece [John C. Carapanayiotis (1909–1999): Grčki radiolog i pionir fizijatrije u Grčkoj]
(2017)John C. Carapanayiotis was specialized in physical medicine and rehabilitation in the USA in 1948, at a time when the medical world in post-war Greece was ignorant of this specific medical specialty, and the political, ... -
Ophthalmic malignancies in antiquity as depicted in two terracotta figurines
(2015)Ocular and orbital wall cancers were recognized by the physicians of the antiquity as incurable, lethal, and non-operable malignant entities. Paul of Aegina (7thc AD) was the first to refer to this type of cancer and ... -
Paul of Aegina (c. 625–690 AD), the Origins of the Early Correction of Pediatric Strabismus in Byzantine Empire
(2016)The eminent Greek physician Paul of Aegina, native of the Saronic island Aegina and pupil of the Alexandrian School, understood both exotropia and endotropia, his designation for esotropia and proposed therapeutic measures ... -
A penis malformation in Etrusco-Roman art, condyloma, haemangioma or a sexual enhancement?
(2015)[No abstract available]