Ancient Man

Disease in ancient man

Dr.med.Gottfried Benn (the famous poet) joined the "Sanitatsdienst" deliberately as a kind of non-political refuge (as apparently other physicians did)? How many German military doctors reacted like Oberstabsarzt Dr Moller, who saw an SS unit shoot a group of Polish "partisans" (including children aged between three and eight) and wrote a critical report to Hitler, the "Oberste Befehlshaber der...

The science of man in ancient Greece

dilemma with potentially fatal consequences if the wrong choice were made. Both volumes together show how much has been achieved in the study of medieval medicine during the last thirty years, to which both scholars contributed greatly. It is no longer enough to edit or present a text, as if its meaning required little further elucidation or as if its significance as an index of medical progres...

Genome of the Ancient One (a.k.a. Kennewick Man).

A little over a year ago the complete genome sequence of a Clovis individual, the 12,500 Anzick child, was published (Rasmussen et al. 2014). His genome gave us a fascinating glimpse of ancient Native American genetic diversity, and new insights into the early peopling of the Americas. At the time, however, I was critical about media coverage. Several press reports chose to fijind controversy i...

The healing hand. Man and wound in the ancient world

Letter: Scrotal asymmetry in man and in ancient sculpture.

JOHIANSEN AND BOYE REPLY-We believe Srivastava’s conclusions’ are based on misinterpretations of circumstantial evidence. First, it has long been known that when bacteriophages are irradiated cxtracellularly the survival of their plaque-forming ability is identical in oxygen and in nitrogen. When irradiated in the presence of sulphydryls, however, the survival in nitrogen is increased, and beco...