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rheumatic diseases at the time of the Byzantine Empire

I must point out an interesting article on knowledge and treatment of rheumatic diseases at the time of the Byzantine Empire.

decrisse Hippocrates first attack of gout (gout) and laid the first pathophysiological basis of rheumatism: a discrepancy of mood was also the cause of joint disease. Patterns were created, the "rheumatism" (from the greek offender = Scroll), which were responsible for joint pain.

Prometheus can be considered the first rheumatologist before its time: as the eagle tore the liver, the blood gushing in streams from his wounds bore a flower, the colchicum (crocus Caucasian).

This flower was used by Jason and Medea to make invincible in ancient times was used both as a poison as medicine.

In particular, the Byzantine physician Alexander of Tralles (fourth century AD.) Used the colchicum (also called ermodattilo) for the treatment of joint pain. The colchicum

successfully entered in the pharmacopoeia of the nineteenth century to treat gout as colchicine.

http://www.imperobizantino.it/documenti/Reumato.pdf