A piece on the above topic in the Home NewsTribune notes:
... the same thing (apparently) is mentioned in an abstract at PubMed:
And wonder of wonders, this one seems to have panned out ... if you have Powerpoint (or the Open Office equivalent), there's a presentation on the web which includes a photo of this 'tablet' (it's in the third slide)
"Varicose veins have been around forever," says Dr. Patrick Clancy, a family practice doctor in Beach Haven. "There's a stone relief in the Acropolis in Greece showing a warrior with varicose veins."
... the same thing (apparently) is mentioned in an abstract at PubMed:
The Acropolis tablet of the IVth century b.c. concerning Dr Amynos allows us to visualize an enlarged lower limb clearly showing a varicosity. From 460-377 b.c., Hippocrates noted that a loose tourniquet leads to haemorrhages but that when the tourniquet is tight gangrene ensues and finally that standing up can exaggerate leg ulcerations. Of course much progress has been made since Hippocrates. The school at Alexandria, with Herophilus and Erasistrates speak of vascular ligatures.
And wonder of wonders, this one seems to have panned out ... if you have Powerpoint (or the Open Office equivalent), there's a presentation on the web which includes a photo of this 'tablet' (it's in the third slide)