The Homeric epics present the 10-year lasting Trojan War, offering the description of battle wounds and medical care of injuries. Hecamede is referred by the Homer as a battlefield nurse who had knowledge of the treatment of bleeding battle wounds.
Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody V, verses: 401 and 899–901.
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Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody II, verses: 729–732.
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Pollak K. Medizin in Griechenland. In: Pollak K. Wissen und Weisheit der alten Ärzte. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1993, pp.5–83.
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Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody XI, verses 214–215.
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Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody IV, verses 190–191.
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Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody XXI, verse 31.
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Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody XI, verses 828–830.
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Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody IV, verses 213–220.
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Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody XIII, verse 598.
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Homer’s Iliad, Rhapsody I, verse 10.
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Warren CP. Some aspects of medicine in the Greek Bronze age. Med. Hist. 1970;14(4):364–77. In: Hollander. Ueber die historische Entwicklung klinstlicher Gliedmaassen. Berliner Kilinsche Wochenschrift 1916; 53: 355.
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KouziAP. History of medicine, Athens: Pyrsos Publications, 1929.
