Many current medical theories and practices originated from a man who lived over 2,000 years ago. Hippocrates was ahead of his time in his thoughts...
One of the (regrettably few) benefits of growing old is the way in which incidents in one's own biography intersect with phases of what passes for world history. I have visited Berlin several times, but three visits stick out in recollection. The first was in the late 1950s after the Ai...