ABSTRACT
There is a painting that looks like a representation of a simple surgical procedure. However, it holds a warm story of the love surrounding the first skin graft made by Dr. David Landsborough III for a Taiwanese child in 1928. He harvested the donor skin from his wife, Marjorie Landsborough, to save a poor boy. Although the grafted skin could not grow onto the wound, the graft of love was permanently imprinted on Taiwanese People's hearts. The first Taiwanese recipient of MD, PhD degree, Dr. Tsung-Ming Tu invited an artist to recreate and draw the surgical procedure to immortalize the unforgettable love and memory of Dr. Landsborough III. The painting hanging on the hospital wall portrays an important professional role model for every student and health care provider. The life story of this medical missionary in Formosa from 1895 to 1936 contributed greatly to the development of medical care in Taiwan. It is hoped that this story, outlining great love and selflessness, can be glorified and remembered for the world to appreciate for generations to come.
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Paintings/history , Skin Transplantation/history , Adolescent , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , Narration/history , Scotland , Skin Ulcer/history , Skin Ulcer/surgery , TaiwanSubject(s)
Medicine in the Arts , Paintings/history , Conjunctival Diseases/history , Copying Processes , Eyelashes/abnormalities , Eyelid Neoplasms/history , Female , Hand/pathology , Hemorrhage/history , History, 16th Century , Humans , Italy , Lip Diseases/history , Museums/history , Nevus, Pigmented/history , Paris , Pinguecula/history , Skin Neoplasms/history , Skin Ulcer/history , Spain , Xanthomatosis/historyABSTRACT
Throughout the course of human history many people have been affected by the presence of chronic wounds. Millions of anonymous people have suffered bed sores, varicose ulcers, arterial ulcers or neuropathic ulcers. But there have been some famous people who, from time to time, remove these lesions from their cloak of invisibility In our day and age, every time a famous person suffers from these wounds, we observe how the means of communication publicize this health problem. However famous people also suffered from these wounds in the past. In this article, the authors will review historical figures who died due to these feared sores. Kings or saints have been affected by this problem. Specifically the authors will focus on six historical figures: three kings, one composer and two saints,; the authors shall analyze the influence of chronic wounds as a cause of their deaths. This article was submitted at the VII National Symposium on Bed Sores and Chronic Wounds and at the First Latin American Congress on Ulcers and Wounds.
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Famous Persons , Skin Ulcer/history , Wounds and Injuries/history , Chronic Disease , History, 15th Century , History, 16th Century , History, Medieval , HumansABSTRACT
A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad muchas personas se han visto afectadas por la presencia de heridas crónicas. Millones de personas anónimas han padecido úlceras por presión, venosas, arteriales o neuropáticas. Pero también han existido personajes famosos que, de vez en cuando, sacan estas lesiones de su invisibilidad. En nuestros días, cada vez que alguna persona famosa las padece, vemos cómo los medios de comunicación se hacen eco del problema. Pero, en el pasado, también personajes ilustres las sufrieron. En el presente artículo histórico efectuaremos un repaso a personajes históricos que también han muerto por las temidas «llagas». Así, reyes o santos, se han visto afectados por este problema. Concretamente nos centraremos en seis personajes históricos: tres reyes, un compositor y dos santos y analizaremos la influencia de las heridas crónicas en la causa de su muerte. Artículo expuesto en el VII Simposio Nacional de Úlceras por Presión y Heridas Crónicas y I Congreso Latinoamericano sobre Úlceras y Heridas(AU)
Throughout the course of human history, many people have been affected by the presence of chronic wounds. Millions of anonymous people have suffered bed sores, varicose ulcers, arterial ulcers or neuropathic ulcers. But there have been some famous people who, from time to time, remove these lesions from their cloak of invisibility. In our day and age, every time a famous person suffers from these wounds, we observe how the means of communication publicize this health problem. However, famous people also suffered from these wounds in the past. In this article, the authors will review historical figures who died due to these feared sores. Kings or saints have been affected by this problem. Specifically, the authors will focus on six historical figures: three kings, one composer and two saints; the authors shall analyze the influence of chronic wounds as a cause of their deaths. This article was submitted at the VII National Symposium on Bed Sores and Chronic Wounds and at the First Latin American Congress on Ulcers and Wounds(AU)
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History, Medieval , History, 15th Century , History, 16th Century , Skin Ulcer/history , Ulcer/history , Pressure Ulcer/history , History of Medicine , Wound Infection/history , Wounds and Injuries/history , Wounds, Penetrating/historyABSTRACT
Ismael Jorjanio (d. 1137), the Persian physician and philosopher, received his medical training in the most famous schools of the Iranian province of khawarizm. He wrote several works in which he dealt with medicine and the natural sciences. We are interested in the work dealing with the classification of ulcerations as proposed by Ismael Jorjani in function with their clinical characteristics and evolution as well as with their technical aspects.
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Medicine, Arabic/history , Skin Ulcer/history , History, Medieval , Humans , Iran , Male , Skin Ulcer/classificationABSTRACT
The aim of the authors is to review the different therapeutic procedures from the ancient era to the beginning of the XXth century. Hippocrates washed ulcers with wine and after having softened them by oil, he dressed them with fig leaves. Plinio used mineral remedies as lead and silver, Galen used spice ointments. In the Middle Ages wounds and ulcers were covered by all kinds of medicament enclosing excrement and urine. At the beginning of the XXth century, by the development of Dermatology, wound and ulcer therapy attained more scientific importance.
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Skin Ulcer/history , Wounds and Injuries/history , History, 15th Century , History, 16th Century , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, Ancient , History, Medieval , Humans , Medicine in the Arts , Paintings/history , Skin/injuries , Skin Ulcer/therapy , Wounds and Injuries/therapyABSTRACT
This examination of a Mimbres-Mogollon pueblo skeletal sample reveals a surprising percentage of individuals with occipital lesions. Each lesion is located in the approximate center of the squama immediately superior to the external occipital protuberance. Notably, no child over the age of 1 year exhibits a lesion that would have been active at the time of death, but a number of older children and adults exhibit evidence of healed lesions in this same area on the occipital. The restricted nature of these lesions, in terms of both their locations and ages of those actively affected, suggests that the use of cradleboards may have been at least a contributing, if not initiatory, factor in their creation. Specifically, this study suggests that the pressure and friction of an infant's head against a cradleboard may have 1) produced ischemic ulcers, 2) produced the conditions favorable for bacterial infections such as impetigo or carbuncles, or 3) complicated the treatment of other infections appearing on the back of the scalp.
