Hippocrates and cholesteatoma

Hippocrates

Appendix to Regimen in acute diseases. Since only the last has ever before been turned into English, those who know no Greek (or who have difficulty with the dark sentences of the Hippocratic Corpus) will have at last the opportunity to read some of the most medically interesting texts of the Corpus. A considerable sampling of the English suggests that this is an extremely accurate rendering wh...

Hippocrates and rheumatology.

Giampiero Pasero, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director (retired), Rheumatology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa; Piero Marson, MD, Blood Transfusion Service, Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy. © Copyright CLINICALAND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY 2004. The cover of Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology this year has been dedicated to Hippocrates, the "Father of Western ...

Hippocrates' Oath is challenged.

Hippocrates and cardiology.

BACKGROUND Although Hippocrates has been traditionally recognized worldwide as the father of medicine, the fact that he was seminal in the development of cardiology is much less well appreciated. Therefore his role in forming the foundation of scientific practice of cardiology needs to be defined. METHODS This article was based on a personal 3-day visit in 1999 to the island of Kos, the birth...

Reinventing Hippocrates

(other?) women, some of which reflects a historical situation in which wealthy women were able, in large part, to control their own lives. One can also see a growing scholasticism, perhaps taking place over a generation, as the masters of Salerno adopted Greek and Arabic modes of argument and explanation. These links with the early School of Salerno are judiciously explored, with consequent mod...