Privileged Piety: Melancholia and the Herbal Tradition

Science meets tradition and identifies herbal treatment for jaundice.

Tradition and Perspectives of Arab Herbal Medicine: A Review

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), including herbal medicine, are popular in the general population worldwide. Parallel to the increasing interest in 'modern' CAM therapies and the historical importance of Arab medicine, there is also a similar trend in research activities dealing with the efficacy and safety of medicinal plants in our region. Historical and current studies and surve...

Melancholia

IVt melancholia is a disease unique in the fact that every human heing wh0 }las reached that stage of his existence which can called the battle of life can enter into and appreciate to a ?reater or less degree the subjective sensations of the sufferer 0rn this complaint, by reason of having, however temporarily, Passed through periods of mental depression himself. Lucky lrideed is the man who c...

The Piety of Escape

This paper examines two seemingly contradictory views of piety found in Plato’s Euthyphro and Crito. Using the Socratic dialogues for evidence of what Socrates actually believed and to piece together a Socratic account of piety, it seems that his argument in favor of remaining in prison is inconsistent with his own beliefs. The paper concludes that Socrates ought not to have thought it was impi...

Melancholia: past and present.

OBJECTIVE To investigate commonalities in the clinical presentation of melancholia over time. METHOD I conducted a comparative study to 2 epidemiologically complete databases from 1875-1924 and 1995-2005. RESULTS Patients in the historical period (1875-1924, compared with 1995-2005) with a diagnosis of melancholia show a classic profile of endogenous onset, with remission after 6 months, ne...