Erschienen in:
01.05.2007 | Editorial
Neck dissection in the nineteenth century
verfasst von:
Benedikt J. Folz, Alfio Ferlito, Carl E. Silver, Jan Olofsson, Patrick J. Bradley, Stanislaw Bieñ, Edward Towpik, Neil Weir, Alessandra Rinaldo
Erschienen in:
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
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Ausgabe 5/2007
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Excerpt
The nineteenth century brought great progress in several fields of surgery and medicine. In addition to the fact that insights, which were gained in the laboratory or during anatomic dissection studies, were, for the first time, correlated to bedside findings and could then be used to improve the treatment of patients, the medical world struggled to discard the baggage of useless and counterproductive traditional treatments such as venesection (bleeding) and purging, previously employed to treat almost any ailment. It was the beginning of modern, science-based medicine. …