The citations of historical examples in the beginnings of texts of the most several areas of the knowledge are a constant that seems not to reflect consultation equally numerous to the primary sources, but yes a tacit agreement, independent of evaluating the author's intention. The need of the review and of the discussion of the classic texts it was made its starting from the concern with the practice of the disposed of babies born with deformities, had as having generalized in ancient Greece, starting from citations in texts the most several. The well-known facts through the texts and its possible context, take to the conclusion that there is not historical documentation that checks that practice as having generalized in ancient Greece.
deformity; congenital anomalies; disable; newborn; Bioethic