Yoshino, M.: History of Climatology: From Ancient to Contemporary Times

The thorax in history 1. From ancient times to Aristotle.

History of water and health from ancient civilizations to modern times

This paper examines the influence of water on public health throughout history. Farming, settling down and building of villages and towns meant the start of the problems mankind suffers from this very day – how to get drinkable water for humans and cattle and how to manage the waste we produce. The availability of water in large quantities has been considered an essential part of a civilized wa...

Health, civilization and the state: a history of public health from ancient to modern times

to be purchased collectively either through social or private insurance. Doctors sought to monopolize access to the resulting funds, which required "walking a tightrope between markets and government". Government help was needed to eliminate competition but no control over the profession was to be ceded in return. Hence the evolution of powerful self-regulating bodies such as the GMC and the AM...

ginger from ancient times to the new outlook

context ginger is the rhizome of zingiber officinale, a perennial plant, used alone or in compounds as a spice or remedy in ancient recipes of iranian traditional medicine (itm) as an effective tonic for the memory and digestive system, the opener of hepatic obstructions, aphrodisiac, for expelling compact wind from stomach and intestines, diluting, desiccating and emollient of phlegmatic and c...

The History of Malaria in the Roman Campagna from Ancient Times

amount of imaginative writing regarding the part played by malaria in bringing about the downfall of Rome. The author of this book, who has spent his life fighting malaria in the Roman Campagna and who cannot therefore be accused of underrating the importance of this disease, deals with facts, as far as history can be said to provide facts, and does not subscribe to this romantic view of the de...