Kapronczay Károly szerk.: Orvostörténeti Közlemények 182-185. (Budapest, 2003)

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SUMMARY Author presents and analyses informations of non-medical texts of Byzantine historians and chroniclers concerning diseases of Byzantine emperors, concluding that diseases were implicated in certain political and military difficulties. Only one third of the emperors died due to natural causes (i.e. illnesses). Some historians, such as Anna Comnena and Michael Psellos had studied medicine, both of them had excellent knowledge of medical theories of their times. Some diseases in Byzantinum were widespread and had high morbidity. This material gives an indication that arthritis (resembling gout) tyrannised a great number of emperors. Contemporary historians maintain that the main causes of gout were overconsumption of alcoholic drinks and food. Other very serious conditions were acute and chronic pyelonephritis and urolithiasis. Relatively frequent conditions of the emperors included pestilential diseases (dysentery, typhoid fever, etc.), psychiatric disorders, epilepsy and arteriosclerosis. IRODALOM Aenii Ephraem: História chronica, (ed.: Lampsides, O.) Athen, Academia Athenensis, 1990. 6993-7008. Ammianus Marcellinus: Kerum gestarum libri qui supersunt. Vol. II. (ed.: Rolfe, J.C.) Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1986. 492-508. Angold, M.: Bizánc. Bp., Generál Press Kiadó, 2002. Attaleiatész Mikhaél: Hisztoria. in: Hadzisz, D. (szerk.): A Bizánci irodalom kistükre. Bp., Gondolat Kiadó, 1974. 161-162. Bidez, J., Parmentier, L.: The ecclesiatical history Evagrius. Amsterdam, Hakker,1964. 214. Bidez, J., Winkelmann, P.: Philostrogius Kirchengeschichte. Berlin, Akademie Verl., 1981.101-103. Bliquez, L.J.: Two lists of Greek surgical instruments and the state of surgery in Byzantine times. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 38, (1984) 187-206. Breckenridge, J.D.: The numizmatic iconography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian II. Ann Arbor, Un. Press, 1957. 27. Caughey, D.: The arthritis of Constantine IX. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 33,, (1974). 77-80 Delbrück, R.: Carmagnola: Porträt eines byzantinischen Kaisers. Mitt. Kais. Deutsch. Archäol. Instit. 29. (1914) 71-89. Ephesinus Ioannes: Históriáé Ecclesiaticae. Pars tertia. (ed. Brooks, E.W.) Louvain, OSCO Press, 1952. 96. oldal. Ermerins, F.Z.: Anecdota medica Graeca. Amsterdam, Hakkert, 1963. Fink, W.: Gebursthilfe in Byzanz. Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik. 36. (1986) 24-37. Genesius, Josephus: Regum libri quattuor. (ed. Lesmueller-Werner, A., Thum, I.) Berlin, W.de Gruyter. Berlin. 1978. 35.