Hippocratic views in the treatment of rectal prolapse

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Tsoucalas, G. [1 ]
Papaioannou, T. G. [2 ]
Papatheodoridis, G. V. [3 ]
Karamanou, M. [4 ]
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[1] Claude Bernard Univ, Univ Inst Hist Med, Lyon, France
[2] Univ Athens, Sch Med, Hippokrat Hosp, Biomed Engn Unit,Dept Cardiol 1, Athens, Greece
[3] Univ Athens, Sch Med, Laiko Gen Hosp, Dept Gastroenterol, Athens, Greece
[4] Univ Lausanne, Fac Biol & Med, Univ Inst Hist Med & Publ Hlth, Lausanne, Switzerland
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rectal prolapse; manual fixation; herbal poultices; Hippocrates;
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R57 [消化系及腹部疾病];
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Known since antiquity, rectal prolapse was first studied systematically by Hippocrates (460-377 BC) who recognized the predisposing factors and proposed several therapeutic approaches such as defecation positions, manual retraction and specific herbal or mineral based anti-haemorrhagic and pain-killing poultices. Hippocratic medicine avoided invasive surgical procedures probably due to a lack of knowledge in human anatomy. However, Hippocrates' views astonishingly lasted in time, presenting similarities to current medical theories on rectal prolapse.
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