Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

Thai Traditional Medicine: Ancient Thought and Practice

It is not always appreciated by those who are accustomed to providing or receiving the benefits of the complicated and highly sophisticated modern, or European, system of medicine that by far the greater part of the world's population depends, and has depended for thousands of years, on other systems of medicine for the prevention and treatment of illness. These systems have survived, not just ...

A Babylonian Perspective on Greek Medicine

Between 1971 and 1988, 20 patients with previously undiagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), of intermediate or high grade histology presented with extradural spinal cord compression. All had decompressive surgery. The first treatment after surgery was chemotherapy in nine and radiotherapy in 11 patients. At presentation 15% were ambulant and this improved to 55% after surgery; urinary continen...

The Theory and Practice of Medicine

Greek Medicine Practice at Ancient Rome: The Physician Molecularist Asclepiades

Background: In the pre-Hellenistic period, the concept of medicine was not well-defined. Usually, a disease was considered as a divine punishment and its treatment was devolved to the priests who asked for healing from the divinities. The only job that could be compared to medical practice was a kind of itinerant medicine, derived from the Egyptian therapeutic tradition based only on practical ...

Ancient astrology, theory and practice. The Mathesis of Firmicus Maternus