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NR 1-2/2004
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Stan okulistyki w
starożytnym Rzymie
A state of ophthalmology in
ancient Rome
Lech Bieganowski
Z Oddziału Okulistycznego Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Zespolonego im.
Ludwika Rydygiera w Toruniu
Ordynator: dr hab. n. med. Lech Bieganowski |
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| Summary: |
The article presents the
state of medical knowledge of the peoples forming
Etruscan and Roman civilization circa 600 years B. C.
Medical practices of these peoples are discussed. It is
underlined that some Etruscan views were adopted by the
Romans who caed much about hygiene. However, the
development of Roman medicine was stricly related to the
Greek And Egiptian physicians to this country. Various
conditions of ophthalmic inflammation and many ocular
diseases like pterygium, entropionand tumor of the lids
were knownn in the Roman society. We owe to Celsus the
description of the couching of the catarct. Oculists
could be find in military hospitals (valetudinarias),
and the navy. However, some civilian physicians like
Antyllus – a famous surgeon who also performed the
couching of the cataract, and Rufus of Ephesus – an
author of a great descriptionof the anatomy of the eye
ae still remembered. |
| Słowa kluczowe: |
Etruskowie, starożytny
Rzym, medycyna, historia okulistyki. |
| Key words: |
Etruscan, ancient Rome,
medicine, history of ophthalmology. |
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