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08.01.2018 | Orthopaedic Heritage
Apollonius of Citium (first century BC) and his work on the treatment of joint dislocations
verfasst von:
Konstantinos Markatos, Demetrios Korres, Demetrios Chytas, Marianna Karamanou, Ioannis Sourlas, Georgios Androutsos, Andreas Mavrogenis
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International Orthopaedics
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Ausgabe 5/2018
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to summarise the life and work of the Cypriot physician Apollonius of Citium (first century BC). His overall work on medicine is presented, and special emphasis is given to his work on the treatment of joint dislocations. The most famous work of Apollonius is Treatise On Joints, which was preserved on the whole in a manuscript of the tenth century AD. In that manuscript, Apollonius is obviously influenced by the Hippocratic Corpus of Medicine. His description, diagnostic methods and reduction techniques are all based on those described by Hippocrates in his work “On Joints”. Apollonius’ contribution to this subject concerns accurate depiction in images of the reduction techniques he proposes. His simplifications describe the techniques of Hippocrates in a way they can be understood and used by athletes and nonphysicians in the Greek gymnasia. Perhaps his treatise is one of the earliest works of popularised medicine and surgery in the history of human civilisation.