Dimitrios Alexandrou Mavrokordatos was the first regular professor of Anatomy and Physiology of the Hellenic "Othonian" University of Athens. He had completed his studies in Germany and thus he had been chosen to stimulate the empirical physicians of Greece to awaken. He died young, but his passion was so great that he had published a masterpiece in the new Greece, "On the anatomy of the human ...

Introduction The science of pharmacology is concerned with the effects of drugs on the function of living tissues (Greek: Pharmakos = drug, Logos = study). Since modern medicine relies heavily on drugs as the principal tool for the treatment and prevention of disease, it is important that all clinicians possess a basic understanding of the pharmacological principles that govern their clinical u...

Quite surprisingly, historians know little about Hippocrates, the physician often referred to as "the father of medicine". However, we do know that he was a strong advocate of the use of medicinal plants to prevent and cure diseases. He recorded between three hundred and four hundred plant remedies in his writing and during the middle ages herbal remedies were passed down from generation to gen...

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai H (460 B.C. 370 B.C.) was a Greek physician universally known as father of medicine. Very little is known about what he actually thought and did. Scanty information about Hippocrates is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Ancient biographer of Hippocrates Soranus mentions that he was born on ...

The article presents the results of a doctoral dissertation defended at the Universidad de Salamanca, based on Foucault's final decade of writings. If Foucault's goal in writing The History of Sexuality was to fashion a genealogy of ethics, my goal in analyzing this book, along with his other writings, is to demonstrate his last contribution to the history of medicine. He moves from a conceptio...

Homeopathy one of the allied branch of medical science which has shown several miracles in treating various rare cases, was originated from the Greek terminology “Homoios” which means “Similar” and “Pathos” means suffering or sickness(1). The basic law of homeopathy is the law of similar (2).Its basic tenets introduced by Paracelsus and Hippocrates, and codified into a medical science in 1789 b...

These difficult questions, now much diseussed, are in fact very old, indeed as old as the beginnings of Western medieine. According to an ancient Greek myth, the goddess Athena procured two powerful drugs in the form of blood taken from the Gorgon Medusa, the blood drawn from her left side providing protection against death, that from her right side a deadly poison. According to one version of ...

In a recent exhibit at the New York Academy of Medicine, I examined the evolution ofteratology (i.e., the study of perceived abnormalities in the natural world, both real and imagined) through the eyes of physicians and philosophers. Based on the exhibit, this paper describes the major interpretations of teratology from Antiquity to the end of the eighteenth century. The term "monster," which i...

Human being has always been suffering from diseases. Before the beginning of Ṭibb (medicine) (300Bc), superstitions were considered as cause disease. Therefore, Gods and Goddesses worshipped to cure disease regain health. Since existence medicine, material is a Accordingly, treatment shifted towards material. In 500 BC Buqrat (Hippocrates) started discussion He established views structure, co...

Folk medicine encompasses the knowledge acquired by generations through indigenous methods of treatment. It comes from the herbal resources, animal and mineral parts which contribute to the treatment system with beliefs. It comprises the knowledge of endemic herbs transferred from one generation to the other as guarded secrets. There are magical and astrological influences invoked in this syste...