A medical condition producing excessive thirst, continuous urination, and severe weight loss has interested medical authors for over three millennia. Unfortunately, until the early part of twentieth century the prognosis for a patient with this condition was no better than it was over 3000 years ago. Since the ancient physicians described almost exclusively cases of what is today known as type ...

Honey an ancient remedy "rediscovered" The usage of honey as a medicine is referred to in the most ancient written records, it being prescribed by the physicians of many ancient races of people for a wide variety of ailments (Ransome 1937). It has continued to be used in folk medicine ever since, but in recent times there has been a renaissance of the use of honey in the medical profession: an ...

Epidemics of diphtheria had occurred in China during eighteenth century. At that time, the western medicine introduced in China was very much limited and not popularized in clinical practice. The therapeutics for diseases including diphtheria was chiefly relied on Traditional Chinese Medicine. The ancient Chinese physicians had accumulated abundant clinical experiences written in medical classi...

The aim of this research was to analyse the use of olive oil as a means of prevention and treatment of sports injuries in the ancient world. The method adopted was based on a thorough study of Greek and world literature. Writings of major ancient philosophers and physicians such as Hippocrates, Aristotle, Philostratus, and Lucian have been analysed in depth. According to the results, the use of...

Review of the earliest written descriptions and reports of cancer show that ancient physicians and surgeons made gradual progress in understanding cancer. It became clear to most of them that early detection and complete removal, before the cancer became ulcerated, afforded the best outcome.

This paper attempts to explore the possibilities of establishing independent innovative theoretical foundations of ancient Indian medicine, by showing that the inner demands of the very content of the discipline made it imperative for the physicians to create their own epistemology and methodology.

Gout is a medical condition with typical recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis. The severity of this illness has been recognised from antiquity, and several ancient physicians studied it intensively. This paper presents the pathogenesis of the disease, approaches to therapy and preventive measures based on a number of original medical scripts from Hippocrates to the end of the Byzan...

865 PHYSICIAN ABANDONMENT of the imminently dying patient is an ancient medical tradition that is deeply rooted in the culture of biomedicine and has stood the test of time. The origin of this curious practice can be traced back to Hippocrates1,2 who supposedly recommended that physicians should abandon the desperately ill. Hippocrates is thought to have made this recommendation for the followi...

Studies continue to report ancient DNA sequences and viable microbial cells that are many millions of years old. In this paper we evaluate some of the most extravagant claims of geologically ancient DNA. We conclude that although exciting, the reports suffer from inadequate experimental setup and insufficient authentication of results. Consequently, it remains doubtful whether amplifiable DNA s...

From ancient Greeks times, researcher had found] that the health and well-being of patients depends upon a joint effort between physician and patient. Patients share their illness with physicians and expect for their care by physician and this relationship is of greatest benefit to patients when they bring medical problems to the attention of their physicians in welltimed and work with their ph...