Aim The study presents a case series which evaluates the presentation, management and outcome of TMJ dislocation in a tertiary health centre in Nigeria. Materials and methods Case review of 11 patients with TMJ dislocation seen in the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan over a period of 10 years. The criteria for the diagnosis of TMJ dislocation were based on history, clinical examinatio...

When Hippocrates lashed out against superstition and wrote his treatise on epilepsy, he seems to have provided a formula and he indicated a trend for the whole history of the relationship between medicine and psychiatry. The trend, under different guises and expressed in different languages and terminology, is as potent today as it was twenty-four hundred years ago. Epilepsy, Hippocrates almost...

THE SEVEN books of Epidemics ("Epidemiae": visits to cities) which come to us in the Hippocratic Corpus fall into three groups, Epid. I and 3, Epid. 2, 4, and 6, and Epid. 5 and 7. Like the other works of the Corpus, their authorship, provenance, and dates are in doubt.' Traditionally since Galen's time Epid. I and 3 have been admired as Hippocrates' work or as the work of a "Coan" school conne...

Phylogenetic, population, and coalescent methods were used to examine the genetic structuring of Pachysoma gariepinum, a flightless dung beetle species endemic to the arid west coast of southern Africa that exhibits interrupted south to north morphological clinal variation along a distributional gradient. Mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequence data of 67 individuals from 5 localities revea...

that scholars and medical men alike have been fooled by a series of attributions devised by Dioscorides and Artemidorus Capito c. A.D. 125 and given greater and almost unshakeable authority by the verbose, argumentative, and persuasive Galen. The main thesis, that the interest in "the true doctrines of Hippocrates" postdates Erasistratus and is the result of the cataloguing in the Alexandrian l...

Knowledge of the life of Hippocrates is mainly based on tradition and on biographies written many centuries after his death. It appears that he was born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, near the western coast ofAsia Minor to a physician Heraclides and his wife Phaenarete. Except that he was of short stature, we have to rely on later Roman sculptures for an idea as to his appearance. He was taugh...