Coining is a technique used in treating many illnesses since ancient times. It is a form of dermabrasion therapy still widely practiced in China and South East Asia. This ancient treatment method is employed to rid the body of "heatiness" or "negative energies". Coining is associated with serious complications, and has been confused with child abuse by physicians unfamiliar to Asian cultures. D...

During several millenia, blacks in ancient Egypt made numerous contributions to medicine and were acknowledged as the inventors of the art of medicine. They produced the earliest physicians, medical knowledge, and medical literature. They contributed to the development of medicine in ancient Greece. Ancient writers, including Herodotus, Isocrates, and Diodorus, affirm this. Modern presentations...

The works of philosophers who worked and wrote in the field health medicine Ancient Age are very important that they convey development diagnosis treatment diseases. Skeletal system disorders constitute most concrete evidences diseases ancient people were exposed to. Information can be attained regarding lifestyle, nutrition, traumas social status societies thanks to findings revealed by scienc...

Anorectal malformations remain a challenging topic in pediatric surgery, known since antiquity. In our paper we expose the main descriptions and therapeutic approaches of imperforate anus and perianal fistula through the works of the ancient Greek and Byzantine physicians.

sumbul-ut-teeb (Nardostachys jatamansi) & khulanjan (Alpinia galanga)are extensively used drugs by our ancient Unani physicians for the management of Gastro hepatic diseases due to cold temperament such as gastritis,metabolic disorders, tashhamul kabid (fatty liver)

The authors briefly describe the history of gout, mainly focusing their attention on the renal involvement. They report some works and theories on gout of great ancient physicians, such as Paracelsus, Sydenham, Boerhaave, Van Swieten and Morgagni.

during the human history, there was a great struggle against illness and pain, and physicians have always been vanguard in this fight, but some physicians, in addition to treating patients, have been doing their actual duty, namely the maintenance of human health. in the ancient medical history resources, issues of health protection have been shown to be one of the most significant subjects of ...

The natural electrical phenomena fascinated humans since antiquity. The electrical discharges produced by the torpedo fish were highly appreciated among ancient physicians as Hippocrates, Scribonius Largus and Galen and were prescribed for headache, gout and prolapsed anus. In the medieval period, torpedo's electrical properties were attributed to occult powers, while Renaissance physicians' an...

That form of inflammation which attacks the apposed pleural surfaces lining the base of the lung and the diaphragm has been recognised from of old by physicians. M. Gueneau de Mussy* wrote a memoir on the subject about the year 1853, and he mentions that "the ancients considered delirium to be an urgent symptom of inflammation of the diaphragm, whence arose one of the terms applied to the struc...