The Treatment of War Wounds in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by Christine F. Salazar - 2000

Leiden: Brill, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Presumed first edition, 2000, hardcover with red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 299pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of shelfwear, isbn sticker to rear panel, now in archival mylar wrap.

Brill, Leiden (...), 2000. XVII,299p. ills.(B&W photographs). Original red gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps slightly jammed to upper edge front cover. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. Else fine. (Rare). ?There is a fair amount of ancient evidence for war wounds, and Christine Salazar?s study, which aims to shed light both on the treatment of wounds in medical practice and on the 'treatment' of the wounded in literature, gathers and discusses much of it (?). She begins by setting out systematically, in two chapters, the evidence from medical writers on the kinds of wounds and possible complications a physician might encounter, and the range of surgical and pharmacological procedures open to him. (?) The evidence sited is predominantly of Roman Imperial date; Hippocratic treatises are included (?). Two particularly interesting chapters proceed to investigate the development of medical services in ancient armies (?), the considerable spread of at… Read More