Research Article

Soranus’ Text “On Signs of Fractures”

Volume: 12 Number: 2 December 28, 2018
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Soranus’ Text “On Signs of Fractures”

Abstract

    Soranus, a famous physician of Ephesus, practiced medicine in Rome at the time of the emperors Trajan (98-117 AD) and Hadrian (117- 138 AD) and wrote approximately twenty books. Of all these surviving books in ancient Greek, Gynaikeia/Peri gynaikeiōn pathōn, his treatise on women’s diseases, obstetrics and pediatrics, is considered the most important one. Soranus’ text On Signs of Fractures (Peri sēmeiōn katagmatōn) is generally accepted as an excerpt from a large work, On Surgery (Kheirourgoumena). This text comprises twenty four brief chapters in which the signs of fractures are organized from the head to the foot. The chapters 1-9 are related to the types of cranial fractures while the chapter 10 deals with the types of fractures in other parts of the body and the remaining chapters are on the fractures from the nose to the ankle bone. In this study, we aim first to give a brief introduction on Soranus’ life, then to present Soranus’ chapters related to the signs of fractures which to the best of our knowledge, have no English translation and to evaluate his classification of cranial and general fractures in the chapters 1-10 within the context of ancient medicine, and finally to mention the probable influence of his classification on the medical writers of the Golden Age of Islam through Paulus Aegineta.

  

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 28, 2018

Submission Date

September 17, 2018

Acceptance Date

September 27, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 2018 Volume: 12 Number: 2

APA
Aşkit, Ç. (2018). Soranus’ Text “On Signs of Fractures”. Archivum Anatolicum, 12(2), 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1501/Archv_0000000150
AMA
1.Aşkit Ç. Soranus’ Text “On Signs of Fractures.” Archivum Anatolicum. 2018;12(2):13-30. doi:10.1501/Archv_0000000150
Chicago
Aşkit, Çağatay. 2018. “Soranus’ Text ‘On Signs of Fractures’”. Archivum Anatolicum 12 (2): 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1501/Archv_0000000150.
EndNote
Aşkit Ç (December 1, 2018) Soranus’ Text “On Signs of Fractures”. Archivum Anatolicum 12 2 13–30.
IEEE
[1]Ç. Aşkit, “Soranus’ Text ‘On Signs of Fractures’”, Archivum Anatolicum, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 13–30, Dec. 2018, doi: 10.1501/Archv_0000000150.
ISNAD
Aşkit, Çağatay. “Soranus’ Text ‘On Signs of Fractures’”. Archivum Anatolicum 12/2 (December 1, 2018): 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1501/Archv_0000000150.
JAMA
1.Aşkit Ç. Soranus’ Text “On Signs of Fractures”. Archivum Anatolicum. 2018;12:13–30.
MLA
Aşkit, Çağatay. “Soranus’ Text ‘On Signs of Fractures’”. Archivum Anatolicum, vol. 12, no. 2, Dec. 2018, pp. 13-30, doi:10.1501/Archv_0000000150.
Vancouver
1.Çağatay Aşkit. Soranus’ Text “On Signs of Fractures”. Archivum Anatolicum. 2018 Dec. 1;12(2):13-30. doi:10.1501/Archv_0000000150

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