Sostratos (medic)

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Sostratos ( Greek  Σώστρατος ) was a scientifically oriented doctor of ancient Greece.

He lived in late Hellenistic Alexandria in the second half of the 1st century BC. BC, where he was around 50–30 BC. Taught and researched and even after 30 BC Taught. Together with Philoxenus , Herakleides von Tarent , Heron and Menodorus he was one of the most famous surgeons of the 1st century BC. It was widely received in antiquity and is still often quoted in the scientific literature on the history of medicine.

Sostratos is also referred to in the literature as a lithotom (cutting out of bladder stones). He improved the dressing technique, invented two descending bandages for large transverse wounds of the trunk, which held transverse bandages, as well as a wide bandage that was cut in the middle and through which the head could be pushed. He already distinguished benign from malignant tumors.

Only fragments and excerpts from his writings have survived, which later scientists and medical compilers use as quotations and references. He is the author of so-called Χειρουργούμενα ( cheirurgúmena = what is treated with the hand, that is, what the surgeon or surgeon does). From Galen's doctrine of associations, fragments of bandages in the case of fractures are preserved. His iological writing (from ἰόσ = iós = poison, poisoning) Περί βλητῶν καί δακέτων ( About wounds and biting and stabbing animals ), in which he borrowed from the doctor Apollodor and Nikander , was written by Aelian , Aemilius Macer , Alexander von Myndos and the grammarian Theon in the Scholia of Nikander . His writing in four books Περί ζῴων ( About the animals ), with which he satisfied the need of his contemporaries for zoological compendia and which also made him a zoologist, was also used by Theon. Some of his writings dealt with obstetrics, which has been passed down in Arabic literature, e.g. B. in the Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn an-Nadīm .

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SURNAME Sostratos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Σώστρατος (ancient Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor of ancient Greece
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC Chr.