Tarihin en uzun soluklu kitle hareketinden birisi olan Haçlı Seferlerinin, Avrupa’dan Yakındoğu’ya kadar geniş bir coğrafyada derin ekonomik, siyasi, askerî ve dinî etkileri olmuştur. “Kutsal toprakları kurtarmak” sloganıyla yola çıkan haç figürleriyle bezenmiş giyseler kalkanlar taşıyan Haçlılar; Selçuklular, Eyyûbîler Memlûklerle mücadele etmişler ilişki içerisinde bulunmuşlardı. Çoğu zaman b...

Most physicians believe they do more good than harm, and these duties of helping and not harming the patient are rooted in the Hippocratic oath, the good Samaritan tradition, and the Order of the Knight Hospitallers founded in the 11th century to care for pilgrims and those wounded in the Crusades. In recent times the simple principles of beneficence and non-maleficence have been augmented and ...

This paper seeks to account for the development of a public health education policy with respect to venereal disease during the period 1916-1926. Two competing pressure groups, the National Council for Combatting Venereal Disease and the Society for the Prevention of Venereal Disease, defended opposing programmes; the one based on moral education (NCCVD) and the other (SPVD) on medical prophyla...

Both Arab and Western scholars agree that, starting in the mid-20th century, correlation of Europeans with Crusaders extrapolation term “Crusade” to modern military conflicts have become an integral part political discourse, are also widely reflected culture. The existence works examining references theme Crusades social thought, politics, culture second half 20th century contrasts almost compl...

Dr. A. Ransome is the author of several wellknown books on the Causes and Prevention of Phthisis and on the open-air treatment. The present volume is a collection of papers written at various periods during a fifty years' campaign against consumption. Many of the articles deal with the subject from a public health point of view, and others are on more scientific aspects of the problem. The subj...

Vitamin C and Physiology Scurvy, an ancient plague, was mentioned by Hippocrates as the cause of debility, bleeding gums, and hemorrhages. Cities under siege, as well as ships at sea, were often devastated by this progressive and undefinable entity. During the Crusades, St. Louis and all of his knights were said to have been defeated and captured because of scurvy. During the 1497-98 voyage of ...