Steven Van Dyken, an immunologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, has been studying an immune response usually triggered in response to allergens and parasites, to see whether it could help to regulate metabolism. He and others ha...
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...
As every illness has a purpose, however, a clod serves to tell you that external forces too easily influence you. The onset of a cold is a message from the body that it’s time for you to let go; and stop worrying needlessly about every little thing. You don’t have to become insen...
Modern medicine has influences that date back to Hebrew medicine – where Moses taught good hygiene, isolating diseases, and the importance of rest and good foods and moderation. Another strong influence is Hippocrates, who lived from 460-360BC. Hippocrates was a Greek physician who rejected supers...
4,000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery. If they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain disappeared. Little did they know that why they’d found was destined to influence the future c...
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...
“zero,” based on a shift of responsibility from the user to the provider, is “stolen” from the occupational health and safety sector. And the ethical rules were essentially borrowed from Hippocrates and the ethics in medicine and engineering. But the rationale for applying them in road ...
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