Immunologist Chaoran Li at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, wanted to know how obesity disrupts the skin’s immune system. Previous research had shown how high-fat diets drive psoriasis through increased activation of immune cells that cause inf...
These chemicals have been known to people interested in medicine for centuries. One of the first and most influential physicians, Hippocrates, wrote about a bitter powder extracted from willow bark that could ease aches and pains and reduce fevers as long ago as the fifth century B.C. In the...
Considered the “Father of Medicine,” Hippocrates (460 – 370 BCE) was an ancient Greek physician who saw all bodily mechanisms as caused by the relative amount of four internal fluids, called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. He believed that a balance between the four ...
It is believed that the first major outbreak of respiratory infection clinically similar to influenza was described in detail by Hippocrates as early as 412 BC as a contagious “Perinthian cough” (Kuszewski and Brydak, 2000; Pappas, 2008). The next detailed write-up of influenza-like epidemic...
Furthermore, semi-precious moonstone was said to cure warts, a cough, infertility and improve libido (Stroud 2009). Even visionary physicians such as Hippocrates (460–370 BC; the father of medicine), Galen (129–199 AD) and Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654) asserted that a good physician ...