[Wound treatment in ancient Greece]

Abstract

Wounds probably represented one of the first challenges the first human beings had to face with. Unlike some primitive creatures that are capable to repair even the entire lost part of the body, a simple healing with connective tissue is all that can be expected in human. From the early days through entire history it was tried to find the way to alleviate and to speed up the wound healing and to prevent dangerous or even deadly complications that may take place. A concept set up by Old Greeks that suppuration of wounds is good and laudable maintained almost twenty three hundred years. Through history it was challenged only occasionally, but stayed firm to the end of 19. century when was proved to be wrong.