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Soranus of Ephesus (98-138) on postpartum depression
Konstantinos Laios, Marianna Karamanou1, Gregory Tsoucalas
1History of Medicine Department, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece. mariannakaramanou@yahoo.com.
Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica : AMHA
|October 14, 2014
Abstract:
Although ancient Greek physicians described several mental disorders, their medical texts bring little information about postpartum depression as defined by modern medicine. Only one reference in ancient Greek medical literature - a passage from Soranus' Gynaeciorum libri IV - can be considered a clear presentation of this mental disorder. Soranus' interpretation seems to be firmly based on the tenets of the four humours.