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Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra
Michigan State University
Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies

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ISBN: 978-1-57059-694-0
Pub date: 2006-11-06
130 pages
12 figures
9 tables

Table of contents

1. Personal Reflections
The Life of the Knife

2. Primitive Times
The First Traces of the Knife

3. Mesopotamia–The Fertile Crescent
Attempts at Controlling the Knife: The Hammurabi Code

4. Egypt of the Pharaohs
Writings on the First Surgical Cases: The Recognition of the Knife

5. Hindu Tradition
The World of Sushrupta Samhita: Another View of the Knife

6. Ancient China
A Land of Unrealized Expectations

7. Greek Civilization
A Rational Approach to Medicine: A Defined Role of the Knife

8. Early Roman Times before Galen
Following Greek Principles: The Greco-Roman Knife

9. Galen’s Roman Times
High Expectations of the Knife

10. Close of an Era