TY - JOUR
T1 - The traumatologist and the battlefield
T2 - The book that changed the history of traumatology
AU - Di Matteo, Berardo
AU - Tarabella, Vittorio
AU - Filardo, Giuseppe
AU - Viganò, Anna
AU - Tomba, Patrizia
AU - Marcacci, Maurilio
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - ABSTRACT: This is a brief historical essay about the 16th century European military surgeon Hans von Gersdorff (approximately 1455 to 1529 in Strasbourg) and his epochal illustrated text, Feldbuch der Wundtartzney (Field Book of Surgery), the first manual of traumatology describing the treatment of battle injuries covering topics ranging from human anatomy to pharmacy, as a guide to field surgery, and explaining the use of surgical instruments developed by Gersdorff himself; for the first time in medical history, a precursor to scientific books for practitioners, this manual is a precious source of information, and it is illustrated by hand-colored woodcuts, attributed to distinguished German renaissance artist Hans Wechtlin; this combination of text and pictures made the Feldbuch a point of reference in the process of arriving at modern traumatology.
AB - ABSTRACT: This is a brief historical essay about the 16th century European military surgeon Hans von Gersdorff (approximately 1455 to 1529 in Strasbourg) and his epochal illustrated text, Feldbuch der Wundtartzney (Field Book of Surgery), the first manual of traumatology describing the treatment of battle injuries covering topics ranging from human anatomy to pharmacy, as a guide to field surgery, and explaining the use of surgical instruments developed by Gersdorff himself; for the first time in medical history, a precursor to scientific books for practitioners, this manual is a precious source of information, and it is illustrated by hand-colored woodcuts, attributed to distinguished German renaissance artist Hans Wechtlin; this combination of text and pictures made the Feldbuch a point of reference in the process of arriving at modern traumatology.
KW - anatomic illustration
KW - Gersdorff
KW - military medicine
KW - surgical history
KW - traumatology
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U2 - 10.1097/TA.0b013e31827d0c9b
DO - 10.1097/TA.0b013e31827d0c9b
M3 - Article
C2 - 23271109
AN - SCOPUS:84872060850
VL - 74
SP - 339
EP - 343
JO - Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
JF - Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
SN - 2163-0755
IS - 1
ER -