Les instruments chirurgicaux de la Grèce et la Rome antique

The Tools of Asclepius: Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times 

Lawrence Bliquez


Hardcover: 440 pages
Éditeur: Brill Academic Pub; Bilingual édition (28 novembre 2014)
Langue: English
ISBN-10: 9004279075
ISBN-13: 978-9004279070
Dimensions du produit: 3,2 x 15,9 x 23,5 cm

With The Tools of Asclepius Lawrence Bliquez offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of the instruments and paraphernalia employed by Greco-Roman surgeons since John St. Milne’s Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907). Introductory sections cover topics ranging from literary and archaeological sources to the design, materials and production of instruments and the training and practice of the doctors-surgeons who used them. Summaries of Hippocratic and Hellenistic surgery lead to the meat of the book: tools used during the Roman Empire. These are presented by category (e.g. Cutting Instruments) broken into subcategories (Scalpel, Lithotome, etc.). A substantial appendix deals with biodegradable items, such as suppositories. Much new material is featured and the book is richly illustrated.