PRAXAGORAS WAS AN INFLUENTIAL

PHYSICIAN IN ANCIENT GREECE. HE

WAS BORN ON THE ISLAND OF COS
AROUND 340 BC. BOTH HIS FATHER,
NICARCHUS DE COS, AND HIS
GRANDFATHER WERE ALSO DOCTORS.
FEW DETAILS OF PRAXÁGORAS'S LIFE
ARE KNOWN AND NONE OF HIS WORKS
ARE PRESERVED TODAY.
 HE IS CONSIDERED AS THE INITIATOR OF THE
SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INTESTINAL
OBSTRUCTION WHEN PERFORMING THE FIRST
INTERVENTION DESCRIBED 350 BC

HIS TREATMENT WAS RECOGNIZED AT THE TIME

"THE HANDLE ENTERED BEHIND THE BLADE, AND

CLOSED THE FAT ON THE BLADE, SO THAT IT COULD
NOT WITHDRAW THE DAGGER FROM THE BELLY,
FROM WHICH THE EXCREMENT CAME OUT ..." CAIN
AND ABEL.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTAL OF
ANCIENT GREECE

VECTOR ILLUSTRATION OF
AN ENTEROCUTANEOUS
FISTULA
 The Theory Arteries And
Of Circulation Pulses
PRAXAGORAS STUDIED
ARISTOTLE'S ANATOMY AND THE THEORY OF THE ARTERIES
IMPROVEMENTS WERE MADE TO OF PRAXAGORAS HAS AN
DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN VEINS ENORMOUS DOMINANCE IN THE
AND ARTERIES. DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY.

ANOTHER FIELD WHERE HE STOOD OUT WIDELY

WAS IN THE FIELD OF CIRCULATION THEORY,
WHERE PERHAPS THE IMPACT OF HIS WORK CAN BE
MORE MEASURED. IN PHYSIOLOGY HE HAD A GREAT
INFLUENCE.