[Treatment of skin ulcers and wounds through the centuries]

The aim of the authors is to review the different therapeutic procedures from the ancient era to the beginning of the XXth century. Hippocrates washed ulcers with wine and after having softened them by oil, he dressed them with fig leaves. Plinio used mineral remedies as lead and silver, Galen used spice ointments. In the Middle Ages wounds and ulcers were covered by all kinds of medicament enclosing excrement and urine. At the beginning of the XXth century, by the development of Dermatology, wound and ulcer therapy attained more scientific importance.