Lascaratos John G, Tsiamis Constantine, Kostakis Alkiviadis
Department of History of Medicine, National Athens University, Greece, M. Asias 75 Str., Goudi, Athens, Greece.
World J Surg. 2003 Oct;27(10):1165-9. doi: 10.1007/s00268-003-7123-4. Epub 2003 Aug 21.
The aim of this article is to present the techniques applied by Byzantine physicians for inguinal hernia repair and to note their influence on the development of surgery after that time. A study and analysis of the original texts of the Byzantine medical writers, written in Greek, and containing the now mostly lost knowledge of the ancient Hellenistic and Roman periods, was undertaken. Two Byzantine physicians, Aetius of Amida (6th century A.D.) and Paul of Aegina (7th century A.D.), described two techniques for confrontation of inguinal hernia, namely the surgical removal of the prolapsed peritoneum and the cauterization of the groin. These methods were probably derived from the texts of earlier Greek surgeons to which they added their own keen observations. The study of Byzantine medical and literary texts proves that the surgical techniques for inguinal hernia were practiced in Byzantine times and influenced later Arabian and European surgery, thus constituting significant roots of surgery.
本文旨在介绍拜占庭医生用于腹股沟疝修补的技术，并指出这些技术对之后外科手术发展的影响。我们对用希腊文撰写的拜占庭医学作家的原始文本进行了研究和分析，这些文本包含了如今大多已失传的古代希腊化和罗马时期的知识。两位拜占庭医生，阿米达的埃提乌斯（公元6世纪）和埃伊纳岛的保罗（公元7世纪），描述了两种应对腹股沟疝的技术，即手术切除脱垂的腹膜和烧灼腹股沟。这些方法可能源自早期希腊外科医生的文本，他们在此基础上添加了自己敏锐的观察。对拜占庭医学和文学文本的研究证明，腹股沟疝的外科技术在拜占庭时期就已应用，并对后来的阿拉伯和欧洲外科手术产生了影响，从而构成了外科手术的重要根源。
