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Title: | Were pneumothorax and its management known in 15th-century Anatolia? | Authors: | Kaya, S.O. Karatepe, M. Tok, Turgut Önem, Gökhan Dursunoğlu, Neşe Goksin, I. |
Keywords: | History of medicine, 15th cent Medical illustration/history Pneumothorax/therapy Thoracic surgery/history empyema hemoptysis human lung aspiration pneumothorax short survey thorax injury thorax surgery Turkey (republic) History, 15th Century Humans Medical Illustration Pneumothorax Thoracic Surgical Procedures Turkey |
Abstract: | Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, a student of René Laennec's, first recognized pneumothorax in 1803, and Laennec himself described the full clinical picture of the condition in 1819. Treatment of pneumothorax was not begun as a standard procedure until World War II, but we think that Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu recognized the condition and applied treatment in the 15th century. Sabuncuoglu (1385-1470) was a surgeon who lived in Amasya (in Anatolia). In 1465, he completed Cerrahiyyet'ül Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), the 1st illustrated surgical textbook in the Turkish-Islamic medical literature. We describe the highlights of the book's recommendations concerning treatment of thoracic trauma, particularly of pneumothorax. We reproduce 2 of the colored miniature illustrations and add our comments regarding the advice of Sabuncuoglu. Most notably, he advocated "mihceme," a cupping therapy, as a simple technique of thoracic aspiration. © 2009 by the Texas Heart® Institute. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11499/6788 | ISSN: | 0730-2347 |
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