Donatella Lippi
Institute of the History of Medicine of the University of Bologna
Keywords:
Aneurisms , Eber Papyrus
Abstract
One of the most ancient description of arterial aneurysm occurs in a paragraph of the Ebers Papyrus: Egyptians considered it a consequence of a vascular lesion and treated it surgically, trough an instrument, which had to be previously cauterized on fire.
