MEDIEVAL medicineCHRISTIANITYMEDICALIZATIONSOCIAL medicinePHYSICIANSHospitals are an innovation dating back to Late Antiquity, and their proliferation in the Western world is closely tied to the advancements of Christianity and ecclesiastical institutions. Since their inception, hospitals have provi...
Many of theRoman godswere believed to have healing powers, but one in particular played a prominent role in ancient medicine. Aesculapius, the god of healing, was the prominent deity that governed the Roman medical practice, and his symbolic snake-entwined staff continues to be used as a symbo...
If you don’t believe in vaccination, you don’t believe in modern medicine in toto. You don’t believe in bacteriology, virology, cellular biology, microbiology, or immunology. What then is left to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease? Trump-ish medievalism, mysticism, shamanism, divine ...
he founded and directed Hopkins’ orthopedic service. Beginning in the 1920s, with his wartime experience still fresh, he began treating osteomyelitis (chronic bone infection) with maggot therapy at Baltimore Children’s Hospital
Recently, a report appearing inThe New England Journal of Medicine (May 24, 1984) suggests that certain kinds of inhaled agents like poppers do in fact reduce the number of helper (t-4) T cells required to fight infection. Their use by gays and others seems to have declined appreciably ...
death rate in childbirth was appallingly high and remained so into mod-ern times. And in this, as in most other aspects of medicine, the richsuffered as much as the poor.The medieval town made as little provision for the education of itscitizens as it did for their health. Toward the ...
Eating one food a day can slash your risk of cancer and help you live longer Dr Neil Paulvin, a longevity and regenerative medicine doctor, has been in health care for more... World's first cryopreservation facility lets you put your body on 'pause' "This new ability will impact every ...
Indeed, the mechanism by which the Jewish race has been preserved throughout the centuries is doubtless found in the sanitary measures observed by the Jews in Europe, during the frightful scourges that visited Israel’s neighbors in ancient and medieval times. This survival took place despite the...
A new medicine for almost everything – is it too good to be true? Alzheimer's, addiction, cardiovascular diseases, kidney disorders, sleep apnoea, diabetes, obesity, and overweight. Researchers are finding almost no limits to what the active substances semaglutide and tirzepatide can treat. ...
The US Institute of Medicine in 2007 called for cooperative participation of industry in “green chemistry” and voluntary compliance both at home and internationally, eliminating double standards in industrialized and developing countries, and complying with a robust regulatory environment to achieve less...