Venous Thrombosis

Abstract

TO OUR knowledge no example of thrombophlebitis has yet been found before the 13th century AD. In 1800, John Hull1made an exhaustive review of the medical literature for the preceding two millenia, but found no record of thrombophlebitis earlier than the one described here. Anning,2Popkin,3and, more recently, Dexter4have likewise found no case before this time. Their search includes not only the writings of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Galen, Coelius Aurelianus, Ibn-an-Nafiz, and Avicenna but also art including bas-reliefs, statuary, carvings, paintings, figurines, jewelry, pottery, engravings and coins from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, Arabic countries, and South America. Thrombophlebitis is one of the few diseases not mentioned in the Bible.5Hippocrates described varicose veins with ulcers but did not describe associated edema. Bilateral edema attributed to liver or renal disease was described by Galen and others, but they never described unilateral edema or

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