Poster Session
Surgical Techniques Removing Foreign Bodies: Ancient Rome vs. Present Day
Location
Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center
Access Type
Campus Access Only
Entry Number
22
Start Date
4-10-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
4-10-2019 1:15 PM
College
College of Health Sciences
Department
Interdisciplinary Studies
Abstract
Surgery techniques in the ancient Roman world have provided us with basic medical ideas that have since grown into the surgical practices that we have today. These Roman techniques have provided the foundations for most of the more recent surgical advances. One writer, a Roman nobleman named Cornelius Celsus, wrote a book, De Medicina (On Medicine), that explains his surgical techniques as well as his knowledge of Roman medicine at the time. In book VII of De Medicine, Celsus specifically describes how to removes missiles, which are more commonly known as foreign bodies, from the body. These writings have provided us the ability to get a first hand account of his medical practices at the time. Based on Ceylan’s findings published in his article "Removal of metallic foreign bodies embedded in soft tissues by stereotaxic approach" in the journal African Health Sciences (2014), focusing on the removal of foreign bodies using new techniques, it is seen that many of Celsus’s teachings have been altered. Using the writings of Celsus in De Medicina and the recent medical journal, we will compare the surgical techniques of removing foreign bodies between the Roman world and the modern world.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Dr. Elza Tiner
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Surgical Techniques Removing Foreign Bodies: Ancient Rome vs. Present Day
Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center
Surgery techniques in the ancient Roman world have provided us with basic medical ideas that have since grown into the surgical practices that we have today. These Roman techniques have provided the foundations for most of the more recent surgical advances. One writer, a Roman nobleman named Cornelius Celsus, wrote a book, De Medicina (On Medicine), that explains his surgical techniques as well as his knowledge of Roman medicine at the time. In book VII of De Medicine, Celsus specifically describes how to removes missiles, which are more commonly known as foreign bodies, from the body. These writings have provided us the ability to get a first hand account of his medical practices at the time. Based on Ceylan’s findings published in his article "Removal of metallic foreign bodies embedded in soft tissues by stereotaxic approach" in the journal African Health Sciences (2014), focusing on the removal of foreign bodies using new techniques, it is seen that many of Celsus’s teachings have been altered. Using the writings of Celsus in De Medicina and the recent medical journal, we will compare the surgical techniques of removing foreign bodies between the Roman world and the modern world.