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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Ancient Medicine

Ancient Medicine is a treatise on medicine, written roughly 400 BC by Hippocrates. Category: Ancient Greek works Other related archivesAncient Greek works, Hippocrates

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: CHINESE AND GREEK

Chinese

According to the ancient Chinese system of philosophy, the human body is governed by Chi, which can loosely be translated as the 'Life Force'.

· The Chi is made up of the Yin and the Yang - the feminine and masculine principles - that in perfect balance ensure health, peace and well being.

· Any imbalance between the two causes disease.

· As early as 2700 BC, the complicated system of Acupuncture had identified pressure points in the human body that were considered crucial for the healing process. By manipulating these pressure points, ancient Chinese physicians could treat the most complicated of diseases.

Greek

· Ancient Greek medicine (circa 450 BC) is synonymous with the name of Hippocrates, who is deemed to be the father of modern medicine.

· Hippocrates based his study and his practice of medicine on logic, reasoning and scientific experimentation.

· For the first time in the ancient world medicine was separated from religion, philosophy and superstition. He recorded all his theories and observations in a series of books, which are now held sacred by the practitioners of modern medicine all over the world.

From about 6th century BC, many important developments were made in the fields of surgery, orthopaedics, opthalmology and obstetrics in Greece. Greek surgeons using various types of knives, syringes and forceps as surgical tools. Although there is a school of thought that believes that transfer of similar knowledge from India through the trade connections cannot be ruled out entirely.

ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia II - Ancient Egyptian medicine - Sources of Information

Until the 19th century, the main sources of information regarding ancient Egyptian medicine were the writers from a later period of antiquity. Homer, writing in the Odyssey (c. 800 BC) remarked: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favorably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the "father of medicine"), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowled ...

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Bloodletting

Bloodletting (or blood-letting, in modern medicine referred to as phlebotomy) was a popular medical practice from antiquity up to the late 19th century, involving the withdrawal of often considerable quantities of blood from a patient in the belief that this would cure or prevent illness and disease. The practice has been largely abandoned due to its proven ineffectiveness against all but a few conditions. The term "phlebotomy" is still sometimes used for the taking of blood for laboratory analysis or blood transf ...

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Black pepper

Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The same fruit is also used to produce white pepper and green pepper.[1] Black pepper is native to South India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions. The fruit, known as a peppercorn when dried, is a small drupe five millimetres in diameter, da ...

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Ai

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Sports medicine

Sports medicine or sport medicine is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of medicine which deals with the treatment and preventive care of athletes, both amateur and professional. The team includes specialty physicians and surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, coaches, other personnel, and, of course, the athlete. Sports medicine - History. The origins of sports medicine lie in a well ancient Greece and ancient Rome where physical education was a necessary aspect of youth – training and a ...

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Sports medicine - United States

ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Blood

Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). Medical terms related to blood often begin in hemo- or hemato- (BE: haemo- and haemato-) from the Greek word "haima" for "blood". The main function of blood is to supply nutrients (oxygen, glucose) and constitutional elements to tissues and to remove waste products (such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid). Blood also enables cells (leukocytes, abnormal tumor cells) and different su ...

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Cannabis drug

The cannabis plant can be dried or otherwise processed to yield products containing large concentrations of compounds that have medicinal and psychoactive effects when consumed, usually by smoking or eating. Cannabis has been used for medical and psychoactive effects for thousands of years. Throughout the 20th century there was a massive upswing in the use of cannabis as a psychoactive substance, mostly for recreational purposes but to some extent for religious purposes. The possession, use, or sale of psychoactive cannabis pro ...

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Cannabis drug - Prohibition and criminalization in the US

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Patent medicine

Patent medicine is the term given to various medical compounds sold under a variety of names and labels, though they were for the most part actually trademarked medicines, not patented. In ancient times, such medicine was called nostrum remedium, "our remedy" in Latin, hence the name "nostrum"; it is a medicine whose efficacy is questionable and whose ingredients are usually kept secret. The name patent medicine has become particularly associated with the sale of drug compounds in the nineteenth century under cover of colourful ...

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Patent medicine - Products no longer sold under medicinal claims

ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - DNA repair

DNA repair is a process constantly operating in cells; it is essential to survival because it protects the genome from damage and harmful mutations. In human cells, both normal metabolic activities and environmental factors (such as UV rays) can cause DNA damage, resulting in as many as 500,000 individual molecular lesions per cell per day. These lesions cause structural damage to the DNA molecule, and can dramatically alter the cell's way of reading the information encoded in its genes. Consequently, the DNA repair process must be constantly operating, to ...

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DNA repair - DNA damage

DNA repair - DNA repair mechanisms

DNA repair - DNA repair in disease and aging

DNA repair - DNA repair and evolution

DNA repair - Medicine & DNA repair modulation

DNA repair - Gene repair

ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Traditional Korean medicine

Traditional Korean medicine (Hangul: 한의학, Hanja: 韓醫學) developed alongside and from Chinese medical techniques and procedures. Techniques in treatment and approach are similar in the main to Chinese medical techniques, but boosting the essence is the main focus in Korea. Traditional Korean medicine - History. The origin of Korean Medicine goes back to ancient times. In Samguk Yusa·Gojoseon(삼국유사·고조선), where the founding myth of Korea is recorded, there is a story of a tiger ...

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Hippocrates

Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC–c. 380 BC) was an ancient Greek physician. He has been called "the father of medicine", and is commonly regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all time. According to the biographical tradition, he was a physician trained at the Dream temple of Cos, and may have been a pupil of Herodicus. Writings attributed to him (Corpus hippocraticum, or "Hippocratic writings") rejected the superstition and magic of primitive "medicine" and laid the foundations of medicine as a branch of ...

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Chronic

The word chronic comes from Chronos, the ancient Greek god of time. Chronic - Medicine. In medicine, a chronic disease is a persistent and lasting condition. More accurately, the chronic disease has a chronic course. Chronicity is usually defined as lasting more than three months. A chronic course must be differentiated from a recurrent course, where the disease relapses repeatedly, the relapses being separated by periods of temporary remission. The chronic course ...

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ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia - Abaris the Hyperborean

Abaris the Hyperborean was a legendary or semi-legendary sage, healer and priest known to the ancient Greeks. According to Herodotus (4.36) he was said to have traveled around the world with an arrow, eating no food. Plato (Charmides 158C) classes him amongst the "Thracian physicians", who practice medicine upon the soul as well as the body by means of "incantations" (epodai). A temple to Pe ...

ANCIENT MEDICINE: Encyclopedia II - Ancient Egyptian medicine - Doctors and other healers

The ancient Egyptian word for doctor is swnw. There is a long history of swnw in Ancient egypt. The earliest recorded physician in the world is also credited to ancient Egypt: Hesyre, “Chief of Dentists and Physicians” for King Djoser in the 27th century BC [3]. The lady Peseshet (2400 BC) was possibly the mother of Akhethotep, and on a stela dedicated to her in his tomb she is referred to as imy-r swnwt, which has been translated as “Lady Overseer of the Lady Physicians” (swnwt is the femini ...

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