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

by Lawrence Bliquez
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004279070
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 440
  • Original Price: GBP 200.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1 BLG
  • Item Weight: 817 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History

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.

Lawrence J. Bliquez, Ph.D, Stanford University (1968), is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of numerous publications on historical and archaeological subjects focused on Greco-Roman Antiquity, in particular on Greco-Roman surgery and surgical tools, including Roman Surgical Instruments and Other Minor Objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Von Zabern, 1994).

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