Origins of the Knife: Early Encounters
with the History of Surgery
Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra
Michigan State University
Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies
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ISBN: 978-1-57059-694-0
Pub Date: November 6, 2006
Pages: 130
Figures: 12
Tables: 9
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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
