Philoctetes, a famous archer of Thessaly and friend of Heracles, took part in the Achaean expedition against Troy. Bitten by a snake, reports a foot injury that a wound becomes chronic, painful and malodorous (Iliad II, 716-725).
is abandoned by his comrades on the island of Lemnos, but without his arrows, Troy is not conquered. It then led in the camp and healed by Achaean Machaon.
Sophocles in Philoctetes, performs an accurate description of the disease: it speaks of foot ulcer (vv 7, 291, 690, 697, 824), painful (vv 9, 11), smelly (vv 520, 876, 890, 891 , 1032), moaning Blood material (vv 695, 782-784).
Among the diagnostic hypotheses: the snake bite, probably not poisonous, causing a wound that is infected.
In the work of Baldacci, you can see the hero suffering and painful spasm that grips his left foot.
Reference: Vincenzo
Baldacci (Cesena, 1802-13), Philoctetes
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