caa a22 4500 475803434 CHVBK 20180406123744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s002689910100 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s002689910100 Fatal Wounding of the Byzantine Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363 a.d.): Approach to the Contribution of Ancient Surgery [Elektronische Daten] [John Lascaratos, Dionysios Voros] Abstract.: Byzantine surgery flourished from the early stages of the Byzantine empire (324-1453 a.d.). The first great Byzantine physicians, among the most eminent being Oribasius from Pergamun (fourth century), not only compiled anthologies of the works of ancient Greek, Alexandrian, and Roman physicians but added their own personal practical experience and observations. The circumstances surrounding, and the treatment of, the fatal abdominal wounding of one of the most renowned emperors of Byzantium, Julian the Apostate (361-363 a.d.), is examined based on historical accounts unknown in the broader medical bibliography, namely, the histories and chronicles of Byzantine writers. From this analysis it can be concluded that the emperor's physician, Oribasius, in all probability, applied knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman surgery to save his famous patient. The techniques of "gastrorrhaphy” and pharmaceutical confrontation of the wound in that era, adopted later by the surgeons of the Medieval West, seem to constitute noteworthy roots of modern surgery. 2000 by the Société Internationale de Chir, 2000 Lascaratos John Department of History of Medicine, Medical School, Athens University, 164b Hippocratous Street, Athens 114 71, Greece, GR aut Voros Dionysios 2nd Department of Surgery, Medical School, Athens University, 164b Hippocratous Street, Athens 114 71, Greece, GR aut World Journal of Surgery Springer-Verlag 24/5(2000-05-01), 615-619 0364-2313 24:5<615 2000 24 268 https://doi.org/10.1007/s002689910100 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s002689910100 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lascaratos John Department of History of Medicine, Medical School, Athens University, 164b Hippocratous Street, Athens 114 71, Greece, GR aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Voros Dionysios 2nd Department of Surgery, Medical School, Athens University, 164b Hippocratous Street, Athens 114 71, Greece, GR aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- World Journal of Surgery Springer-Verlag 24/5(2000-05-01), 615-619 0364-2313 24:5<615 2000 24 268 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer