Abstract：
BACKGROUND:As ancient Greeks started looking for deities that could fulfill the pragmatic needs of common people, local heroes started being mythologized and worshipped through cults. METHODS:The most widespread such example was Asclepius, possibly a skilled war surgeon who followed military expeditions to Colchis and Troy. Our study investigates the possibility of the early neurosurgery to have been started inside Asclepieia by Asclepius and his followers. RESULTS:Asclepius was worshipped at religious temples called Asclepieia where certain specific medical and surgical techniques were followed. The most advanced technique was skull trepanation, which was most likely done as an acute operation to release intracranial pressure. The contemporary Hippocratic corpus provided extensive descriptions of the technique, and archaeologic evidence has shown that many patients survived the operation. CONCLUSIONS:Decompressive craniectomy techniques have been practiced for millennia but it is possible that they were first systematized as a neurosurgical innovation through the Ancient Greek religious cult followed in Asclepieia.
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World Neurosurgjournal_title
World neurosurgeryauthors
Tsoucalas G,Kousoulis AA,Mariolis-Sapsakos T,Sgantzos Mdoi
10.1016/j.wneu.2017.04.022subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-07-01 00:00:00pages
501-503eissn
1878-8750issn
1878-8769pii
S1878-8750(17)30517-Xjournal_volume
103pub_type
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