Saints Cosmas and Damian: Patron Saints of Medicine
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SS. Cosmas and Damian— Patron Saints of Medicine and Pharmacy Their Cult in England
AMONG the many saints associated with the healing arts, the twin brothers SS. Cosmas and Damian have long been revered and adopted as patrons. Their practice ofmedicine and surgery in Asia Minor without fe-hence called 'Anagyroi,' without silver-and their martyrdom in Aegea, in Cilicia, in the time of Diocletian, and according to tradition by Lysis, Roman Governor of the Province, made a lastin...
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The Christian miracle tales strongly support the identification of Sts. Cosmas and Damian as doctors. The most famous of the saints' posthumous miracles, is that of the Black Leg. The main source of this story is the Golden Legend by Jacobus da Varagine, collection of fanciful hagiographies compiled in the 13th century. Saints Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplanted the black leg of the Eth...
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Cosmas and Damian, the patron saints of surgeons, were twin brothers who dedicated their lives to healing the sick (Figure 1). They are most revered for performing the first transplant operation, when they replaced the gangrenous leg of the sacristan Justinian with one from a recently deceased soldier. In the 1940s and 1950s, when Thomas Starzl and Sir Roy Calne (Figure 2) were training to be s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0009-921X
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-016-4929-6