Luigi Capasso
Anthropological and Paleopathological Research Unit, Minister for Cultural and Environmental Duties, Rome, I
Luciana Rita Angeletti
Department of Philology and History, Section of History of Medicine, University of Cassino, I
Keywords:
Paleopathology , Orthopedics , Ancient History
Abstract
Increasing efforts have been recently made to apply medical technologies to history of medicine of ancient time. Despite the use of molecular biology techniques, the most reliable results have been obtained by the paleopathological study on disease which may recognized by the observation of stigmata of bones: the datation of skeletal lesions and the findings of cranial and orthopedic lesions indicate that the attenpts of cure of bones are typical of early medical activity, dating from the prehistoric antiquity.
