Lex Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Lex as an aside do you have knowledge of any "local" herbal remedies used by Native Peoples or early Settlers in SA in relation to wounds and fevers? I ask in relation to a specific discussion between myself and Spurius on wound treatments outside the Roman sphere. Unfortunately I don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiochus of Seleucia Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 As for a stomach wound, if they laid in the field long enough they'd die from the hydrochloric acid leaking out and eating away their insides. I read here earlier that they used silver staples to close flesh wounds. I saw a show on the history channel, and it showed a guy during the Dacian campaign getting stitches with needle and thread? And lastly, the Romans, or any ancient society for that matter, didn't have a germ theory, but I think they knew well enough if they didn't apply an alcohol that it would become infected and cause great pain. I think that over the years they found that alcohol stopped this eventual suffering and and would apply it. Kinda like experimentation or accidental find. This is interesting stuff... I must learn more for I know basically nothing about ancient medicine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted July 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Stitching (suturing) was not , as far as I know, a popular Roman field technique. Certainly they had the ability to suture but apparently preferred to let "straightforward " flesh wounds breathe, as a good deep scab builds and pus is localised in a cleanable wound. Hydrochloric acid tends to corrode surface flesh if it spills from a wound, if it got anywhere else it would burn flesh or exposed organs, but it wouldnt in itself cause infection. Antiochus was the Dacian example form some sort of Trajanic source? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiochus of Seleucia Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 It was a show on the history channel about the Roman Legions. They were following a man named Maximus through the Dacian Wars. I believe it was called: Life and Death in Rome: Legions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted July 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 It was a show on the history channel about the Roman Legions. They were following a man named Maximus through the Dacian Wars. I believe it was called: Life and Death in Rome: Legions. Thank you, I thought perhaps I had missed some detail from Trajans column: the scenes of the wounded and the bandaging of wounds I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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