“Empyemas” of the Thoracic Cavity in the Hippocratic Corpus

Thoracic “empyemas” appear often in the Hippocratic Corpus and with detailed descriptions of their etiology and clinical manifestation. To find the precise thoracic location suffering from “empyema,” the physician asks the patient to turn on one side and inspects there for pain. The Hippocratic phys...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Annals of thoracic surgery 2008-03, Vol.85 (3), p.1132-1134
Hauptverfasser: Christopoulou-Aletra, Helen, PhD, Papavramidou, Niki, PhD
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