The ‘Hippocratic’ four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals, and home remedies. The Greeks combined dietetics, medicines,...
Medicine
A vaccine tricks the body’s immune system into producing antibodies to fight a form of the virus...
Examining modern remedies derived from medieval monastic knowledge. Most people think of herbal medicine as a distinctly...
The spirits and gods were believed to make their presence known through disease. Introduction When people fall...
Vaccination led ultimately to the eradication of smallpox, one of the great achievements of medicine. By Arthur...
Inoculation spread all over the world and revolutionized the field of vaccination against several other infectious diseases....
Polio was nearly eradicated with the Salk vaccine in 1955. Little was known about this mysterious disease...
His work led to systematically developing, testing, and popularizing inoculation that saved countless lives. Introduction Edward B....
Fear of a disease that seemed to turn people into beasts might have inspired belief in supernatural...
The marijuana industry in America has had a new lease of life in recent years. This is...
The relationship between cocaine and medical practitioners in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Introduction Cocaine is...
How medical pioneers and health innovations shaped the landscape of medicine in the 19th century during disease...
Disease is thought to be caused by intrusion or soul loss, evil spirits, sorcerers, or broken taboos....
This would have been placed in a grave to embody the shaman’s power that would help the...
The Hippocratic philosophy on health care provision applied standards and ethical rules that are still valid today....
From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphed. Not malaria. Not cholera. Not AIDS, influenza, measles, or...
Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic. On September 12, 1918, Dr. Royal S. Copeland put the...
The toxic properties of arsenic were known by Hippocrates in 370 BCE. By John Frith Introduction Arsenic...
In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles...
You visualize yourself aging gracefully and living a long, healthy life filled with joy, happiness, family, friends,...
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World...
Though it may seem like CBD is something completely new, nothing could be further from the truth....
The healthcare industry requires new professionals on a daily basis, especially with the increasing health crisis globally....
Aborigines were hunter gatherers – not cultivators – so there was little intentional interference with natural selection...
He had to deal with critics like Walter Winchell, who warned, “It may be a killer.” It...
Franciscan nuns, physicians, anesthesiologists, and social workers helped created a pathbreaking medical center. Several years ago, a...
Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine was used for several centuries in medieval Europe and the Arab world as...
His aggressive manner of teaching and his outspoken criticism of traditional medical theory made him unwelcome in...
Galen’s experimental methods foreshadowed later developments of Western scientific medicine. Introduction Galen (129 C.E. – c. 210...
Hippocrates is commonly portrayed as the paragon of the ancient physician. Introduction Hippocrates of Cos II, or...