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Maybury has achieved this by identifying the time and place when each operation was first undertaken. The first of these was the trephination of the skull in Peru twelve thousand years ago, presumably to exorcise evil spirits. This operation over several thousand years reached Europe where Hippocrates described and rationalised it to treat head injuries, it is still practiced today and is the forerunner of each subsequent original operation.
The golden ages of surgery took place in Ancient Greece and India and 1,300 years later in Western Europe and the USA. Between these periods, no original operations took place. Maybury explains why this happened and reveals the Greek theory that dominated surgery for over 2,000 years. He describes the passage and translation of the Greek manuscripts and their acceptance in the Arabian Empires and how in turn the Arabic versions strongly influenced Italy and then Western Europe. He also tells of the Edict of Tours of 1163 that devastated surgery and took 700 years to rectify and also the extraordinary modern era when all the tissues of the body were finally operated upon and very much more.
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Nigel Keith Maybury
Austin Macauley Publishers
2022-08-31
Nigel Keith Maybury was born in 1943 and is a retired general and vascular surgeon of wide experience. He trained at Oxford University and St Thomass Hospital, London. He was a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the Middlesex Hospital, London and later a lecturer in surgery at the University of Leicester. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, Greater Manchester. He wrote his thesis for a DM from Oxford, on surgery, for duodenal ulcersa major disease of the 20th century. His previous book published in 2014 was The End of the Golden Age of General Surgery, which describes the training and practice of a surgeon in the second half of the 20th century, before the dramatic changes in the practice of surgery that occurred across Europe at the beginning of the new millennium.
To Sara Elisabeth, my wife, for her love, patience and encouragement during the years of writing this book, for she never knew if I was at home or in a distant time and country.
Nigel Keith Maybury 2022
The right of Nigel Keith Maybury to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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The medical information in this book is not advice and should not be treated as such. Do not substitute this information for the medical advice of physicians. The information is general and intended to better inform readers of their health care. Always consult your doctor for your individual needs.
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In a book spanning the whole length of civilisation itself, I am indebted to many who lived long ago as well as my contemporaries and friends who have advised and helped in so many ways.
Looking back to the study and interpretation of pre-historic surgery, Dr Guido Majno, is foremost in his description of the surgery of the Peruvians and ancient Egyptians. Also, this book would not be possible without the descriptions of operations first performed in ancient Greece and Rome, by Hippocrates, Celsus and Galen, and also in India by Sustruta. These were later translated by brilliant scholars who made the treatises of the ancients available to a wider public. A window into the surgery of the Middle Ages was provided in books by contemporary surgeons; Ambroise Par, Thomas Cope, Richard Wiseman and John Hunter. They described the operations of the ancients that they practised during these difficult times. Other valuable sources of information included Dr Donald Campbells Arabian Medicinepublished in 1926 and a History of Surgeryby Professor Harold Ellis and many others who are listed in the bibliography.
My grateful thanks go to, Dick Stroud, an author of many books for his erudition and advice; to, Brian Livingstone FRCS, for his attention to surgical detail; to, Neville Lewis, a scholar with a great love of Greece and, Dr David Boase FRCS FRCOpth, for his advice.
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