From hunsucker@uba.uva.nl Fri Oct 12 04:44:15 2001 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f9CBiDN24136 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 04:44:14 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Oct 12 04:38:25 2001 -0700 Received: from barlaeus.ic.uva.nl (barlaeus.ic.uva.nl [145.18.68.50]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f9CBcOU06104 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 04:38:25 -0700 Received: from S879.uba.uva.nl (L-Hunsucker.uba.uva.nl [145.18.84.178]) by barlaeus.ic.uva.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA04017 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:38:23 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: barlaeus.ic.uva.nl: Host L-Hunsucker.uba.uva.nl [145.18.84.178] claimed to be S879.uba.uva.nl Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20011012134901.008396e0@mail.uba.uva.nl> X-Sender: hunsucke@mail.uba.uva.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:49:01 +0200 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "R.L. Hunsucker (UvA/UBA)" Subject: Unconventional weapons (Was: Re: treatment of war wounds) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011012044839.02179470@idirect.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20011011172750.0080a650@mail.uba.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable After receiving David's reaction, I had a further look in the literature and found yet other interesting stuff, but in view of the current mass-psychological etc. situation esp. in the U.S.A. and the B.R.D., I thought it perhaps especially worth mentioning the following, in the nihil-novi-sub-sole category, as it were : M.D. Grmek, "Les ruses de guerre biologiques dans l'antiquit=E9", in _REG 92_ (1979), p. 141-163.=20 It deals, according to the _APh_, with e.g. "fl=E8ches infect=E9es, le catapultage des serpents vivants et l'empoisonnement de l'eau potable", as well as "amener l'ennemi dans un endroit malsain, infest=E9 de paludisme". Have a nice day. - L. Hunsucker - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -=20 At 05:04 12-10-01 -0400, David Meadows wrote: >At 05:27 PM 11/10/2001 +0200, R.L. Hunsucker wrote: >>I'd think in the first place of : >> >>The treatment of war wounds in Graeco-Roman antiquity / >>by Christine F. Salazar. - Leiden [etc.] : Brill, 2000. - 8 p. pl., >>XXVII, 299 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - (Studies in ancient medicine ; >>vol. 21). Based on diss. University of Cambridge. - Index, >>bibliogr. - ISBN 90-04-11479-3 hb. > >Review at: > >http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-08-17.html > >For specialist info in this area, I'd suggest joining the MEDANT list=20 >(although it is reaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllly quiet): > >http://ea1785.org/medant/list.htm > >It's worth going through the bibliography at the UBirm site; not a lot that= =20 >is greek-war specific (I'm not sure about the titles under Homeric=20 >Medicine), but look at the section Greek Medicine in Ancient Rome: > >http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/histmed/biblio.html > > >Elsewhere on the web, check out (some of these are obviously aimed at a=20 >more general audience): > >http://www.mcatmaster.com/medicine&war/ancientrome.htm (includes a fresco= =20 >detail of a Roman surgeon removing a dart from a soldier's leg) > >http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/acv/Chapter%201.html (a correspondence lesson= =20 >from the army medical department > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Laval Hunsucker hunsucker@uba.uva.nl ------------------------------ #################### .