Les Textes médicaux latins comme littérature

one such example discussed in a separate chapter). The injury becomes stylized and subservient to this ideal. Part Three examines the archaeological record. It is unfortunately rather short, and the sections on arms and armour and surgical instruments were better placed in Part One. The conclusion is one and a half pages, and Salazar excuses this because of the book's "multi-disciplinary approach", for it is "obviously impossible to provide an overall conclusion other than stating that the topic of wound treatment in antiquity is of far greater interest than most scholars assume" (p. 248). This is fudging. Eight figures are included. Figure 5, showing Roman surgical instruments, is not provided with a scale. And two illustrations from plaster-casts of Graeco-Roman gems are very similar (figures 6 and 7a show essentially the same treatment given to a thigh injury). On page 49, Celsus's description of the Diocleus cyanthiscus, the "spoon of Diocles", a remarkable and impractical device for large arrowhead extraction, is summarized. But the citation is given on page 102. In the index locorum, Galen is cited both by work but also without indication of the work. Non-Galenists (and Galenists, for that matter) have to hunt the text in question. And why is it still felt necessary to transliterate Greek? Thus, "probing" is rendered