History of Medicine -3: Late Greek Period

Greek Association of the History of Medicine

bifurcation of the carotid artery (carotid sinus) may provoke reflex bradycardia, fall of blood pressure and fainting.8 Hippocrates, Galen and Mattheus Curtius also observed that it was not the compression of the arteries in the neck, but of their bifurcation (carotid sinus) that might induce fainting or sleep. I therefore agree with the suggestion of Balourdas that ifthe old Greek physicians o...

A structural pattern in Greek dietetics and the early history of Greek medicine.

INTRODUCTION Early Greek medicine-the medicine actually practised by Greek doctors of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and reflected in various texts of the Hippocratic Corpushas two noticeable characteristics. In its nosology it conceives of disease as a process, which runs a predictable course, reaching a crisis which "determines" or "decides" the recovery or death ofthe patient.1 In its t...

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Dreams in ancient Greek Medicine.

Dreams preoccupied the Greek and Roman world in antiquity, therefore they had a prominent role in social, philosophical, religious, historical and political life of those times. They were considered as omens and prophetic signs of future events in private and public life, and that was particularly accentuated when elements of actions which took place in the plot of dreams were associated direct...

Istorija Medicine History of Medicine

reflektuju daleko starija medicinska saznanja jos iz "Starog carstva" [1]. Najpoznatiji i najveci rukopisi Sll tzv. Smitov (Smith) I Ebersov (Ebers) papirus koji datiraju iz 17. i 16. veka p.n.e. Medutirn i pored brojnih dokaza 0 razvijenosti medicinske delatnosti II starom Egiptu malo je ostalo imenom zabelezenih lekara. Prvi lekar u starom Egiptu cije je ime ostalo zabelezeno, a ujedno je to ...