Ramoutsaki I A, Dimitriou H, Galanakis E, Stiakaki E, Kalmanti M
University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Department of Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2001 Apr-May;18(3):161-6. doi: 10.1080/08880010151114723.
The main trends in the diagnosis and management of childhood cancer during the Byzantine period (330-1453 CE) are investigated. Therapeutic modalities reflected the influences from Ancient Greek and Greco-Roman medicine. Medical treatment included a great variety of regimens, and surgery was not unknown. The attitudes toward cancer suggest that people of that time did not believe in a superstitious origin of the disease. Even though most of these remedies and many procedures are nowadays out of use, the physicians of the Byzantine period preserved the scientific medical thought of antiquity, improved it, and set the basis of current achievements. Medical terms introduced during the Byzantine period are still used. The texts have been studied in their original languages, that is, Ancient and Byzantine Greek, and Latin.
本文研究了拜占庭时期（公元330 - 1453年）儿童癌症诊断与治疗的主要趋势。治疗方式反映了古希腊和希腊 - 罗马医学的影响。医学治疗包括各种各样的疗法，手术也并非不为人知。当时人们对癌症的态度表明，那个时代的人们并不相信这种疾病起源于迷信。尽管如今这些疗法和许多程序大多已不再使用，但拜占庭时期的医生保留了古代的科学医学思想，对其进行了改进，并奠定了当前成就的基础。拜占庭时期引入的医学术语至今仍在使用。这些文本已用其原始语言进行研究，即古希腊语、拜占庭希腊语和拉丁语。
