This paper entails a fresh look at three works on ancient Indian medicine: Ancient Indian Medicine. by P. Kutumbiah (Calcutta: Orient Longmans. Ltd .. 1962); Hindu Medicine. by Henry R. Zimmer, edited with a foreword and preface by Ludwig Edelstein (Baltimore. The Johns Hopkins Press. 1948); and The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels, by Jean Filliozat, t...

In the ophthalmological treatises of the medieval Arabo-Islamic physicians such as al-Mawsili (9th-10th century), al-Kahhal (ca. 940-1010), Haly Abbas (10th century) and al Sadili (14th century) we may find references about ocular cancer, focusing on eyelid tumors and cancerous ulcers of the cornea. These references are similar to the analogous ones of ancient Greek physicians as these are pres...

This work essentially represents two parts of a whole. Part one is a medical chronology and the reader is taken on an odyssey, as we chart the evolution of medicine from prehistoric times, through the ancient world, the middle ages, and into our modern world. Goddard writes with impressive authority, and reveals a deep love for learning, not just about medicine, but civilization. The author als...

To the Editor: After reading your editorial published in the 2nd issue of the Hell J Nucl Med, 2007; 10 (2): 74-78, we would like to express the unanimous opinion of the Greek doctors specializing in Nuclear Medicine, according to which, we consider that for the use and responsibility of the PET/CT dual scanner, the nuclear medicine physician should be the only responsible person and the radiol...

In congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (cNDI), polyuria and polydipsia are present from birth, as the kidney is unable to concentrate urine despite elevated concentrations of the antidiuretic hormone arginine-vasopressin.1 In ancient Greek medicine, physiology was, needless, to say, an as yet fairly undeveloped specialty among medico-philosophers, based as they were mainly on the Hippocra...

Although Baghdad was only 50 years old in the 9th century, it was at the peak of its political power, a powerhouse of learning and the leading medical centre of the time. It was there that many important Greek works were translated into Arabic, including Dioscorides's Materia medica, which formed the basis for Arabic pharmacology. While Islamic physicians revered Greek medicine and seldom quest...

In our review of the first volume in this series we introduced the medical scholar Dr. Plinio Prioreschi, the author of this marvelous narrative of the history of medicine, and listed the composition of this series of tomes for the benefit of the readers.[1] We do so again here for the same reason: • A History of Medicine — Volume I: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (2nd edition, 1995); 596 pages...

This paper explores the relative contributions made by orthography, syllabic segment, and lexical tone in the word recognition and retrieval process. It also challenges recent assumptions regarding the role of orthography and tones in mental lexicon architecture. Using an implicit priming paradigm, a word recognition experiment was conducted with native speakers of two tonal languages, Chinese ...

Related languages, like English and Spanish, often have similar orthographies but use the same letters to represent different sounds. Learning a second language frequently involves learning additional letter-sound mappings that mismatch those in the native language. In the current study, we investigated whether L2 spoken words activate L2 orthography despite conflict with L1 orthography-to-phon...