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    Συναγωγαί, Iatrikai Synagogai) under the title From Heraklas. Describing them in detail, Heraklas discussed 16 different knots and slings, including the...
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    known since at least the first century when described by Greek physician Heraklas in a monograph on surgical knots and slings. Known under a variety of names...
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    "epankylotos brokhos" described by the 1st century AD Greek physician Heraklas. It is formed by making two loops, not exactly overlaying each other. The...
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    travel anywhere with a smile and a piece of string." The Greek physician Heraklas produced the earliest known written description of a string figure in his...
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  • Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord. Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings....
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    used since the first century when they were described by Greek physician Heraklas in a monograph on surgical knots and slings. In the past, the training...
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    knot. The bottle sling was described in detail by the Greek physician Heraklas in his first century monograph on surgical knots and slings. It was included...
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    ISBN 0-486-29918-X Ashley, pp. 399-400. Hage, J. Joris (April 2008), "Heraklas on Knots: Sixteen Surgical Nooses and Knots from the First Century A.D...
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    The plinthios brochos as described by Greek physician Heraklas, a sling for binding a fractured jaw. These writings were preserved in one of Oribasius'...
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    presented as the surgical sling Plinthios Brokhos by Greek physician Heraklas, is among the preserved material. Hagiography has it that in 362, on behalf...
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  • Heraeum (Thrace) Heraion of Argos Heraion of Perachora Heraion of Samos Heraklas Herakles (Euripides) Herald and Trumpet contest Hercules and the lion of...
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