The so-called " Yunani Hikmat," or the old Greek system of medicine as practised in India, though very imperfect and irrational in many points, is not altogether so absurd as those unacquainted with it hold it to be. No one can deny for a moment the immense superiority of the present European medical science over the old rudiments : nor can any one ever think of adhering to some of the old teac...

This study addresses Samuel Beckett’s most celebrated play, Waiting for Godot, in an effort to analyze its characters from a novel perspective. Since Greek mythology has been undisputedly influential on Western culture and literature, the researcher attempts to investigate a connection between Greek mythology and the play. This study aims to reveal that even after more than fifty seven years of...

Introduction The term “phenotype” comes from the Greek word “phaino” are is the mix of characteristics and properties of the body, formed in the process of individual development. In medicine phenotype has traditionally been viewed as the result of the interaction of the genotype (genetic characteristics of the organism to the conditions of external environment. Different authors in the allocat...

Background and Aim: Medical concepts can be studied in language and literature. The purpose of this study is to investigate the term"pezeshk" and"medical terminology” in ancient Iran, in Persian language and literature, and in Mashreqi Shirazi poems. Materials and Methods: This research has been done by reviewing and studying three articles, three databases, and about fifteen books. Since the ...

he relationship between medicine and religion belongs to the classical topics of medical history, in the studies of the so called early civilizations, mainly Egypt and Babylonia, of Greek and Roman antiquity, of the occidental and oriental Middle Ages and of the European early modern period. Yet about a century ago, preformed by enlightenment ideas on linear progress of humankind and often expl...

The origins of Western culture extensively relate to Ancient Greek culture. While many ancient cultures have contributed to our current knowledge about medicine and the origins of psychiatry, the Ancient Greeks were among the best observers of feelings and moods patients expressed towards medicine and toward what today is referred to as 'psychopathology'. Myths and religious references were use...

The subjects were evaluated at the Internal Medicine Department of the Military Hospital of Gyrocaster in Albania, which is run by both Greek and Albanian military health personnel. Serum glucose, lipids (total cholesterol, triglycerides) were measured enzymatically on a Technicon RA-XT analyzer (Technicon, Dublin, Ireland). The personal information, medical history and the somatometric values ...

In this paper, we experimentally study the problem of querying the web in a hybrid language, namely Greeklish. Greeklish is the transliteration of Greek in Latin characters of the ASCII code. Although Greeklish emerged as a convenient mean for the creation and distribution of digital data at a time when Unicode Transformation Format was not supported for the Greek alphabet, nevertheless it is s...

If we consider an n x n image as an n2 dimensional vector, then images of faces can be considered as points in this n2-dimensional image space. Our previous studies of physical transformations of the face, including translation, small rotations and illumination changes, showed that the set of face images consists of relatively simple connected sub-regions in image space [1]. Consequently linear...

The aim of the study is to present the efforts of the Greek physicians to introduce a malaria control and eradication program in Greece. It is based on the proceedings of the Greek Anti-Malaria League and on medicohistorical studies. Due to political, economic and military reasons the Greek State seemed weak to develop a dedicated plan to eradicate malaria. Hence, the Greek Anti-Malaria League ...