Votive Reliefs of Lower Extremities Disorders: A Brief Review

The purpose of this paper is to present a series of votive reliefs from Graeco-Roman antiquity related to disorders of the lower extremities, in order to comprehend the importance of anatomical offerings as gifts of gratitude to healing gods such as Asclepius. The selected offerings cover disorders...

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Autores principales: Theodoraki, Efi, Paraskevas, George K, Natsis, Konstantinos, Papavramidou, Niki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7081739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32211256
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7020
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author Theodoraki, Efi
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description The purpose of this paper is to present a series of votive reliefs from Graeco-Roman antiquity related to disorders of the lower extremities, in order to comprehend the importance of anatomical offerings as gifts of gratitude to healing gods such as Asclepius. The selected offerings cover disorders such as varicose vein disease and deformities of the lower limbs and provide significant information on medical treatments in ancient Greece, as well as the importance of religious practices in the healing process.
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spelling pubmed-70817392020-03-24 Votive Reliefs of Lower Extremities Disorders: A Brief Review Theodoraki, Efi Paraskevas, George K Natsis, Konstantinos Papavramidou, Niki Cureus Medical Education The purpose of this paper is to present a series of votive reliefs from Graeco-Roman antiquity related to disorders of the lower extremities, in order to comprehend the importance of anatomical offerings as gifts of gratitude to healing gods such as Asclepius. The selected offerings cover disorders such as varicose vein disease and deformities of the lower limbs and provide significant information on medical treatments in ancient Greece, as well as the importance of religious practices in the healing process. Cureus 2020-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7081739/ /pubmed/32211256 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7020 Text en Copyright © 2020, Theodoraki et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7081739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32211256
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7020
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