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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"hippocrates"”.
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Cures of the body and cures of the soul : from Hippocrates to the early Eastern Christian Fathers.
This study examines the differences between Hippocratic medicine and Eastern Christian medical notions in relation to the human body and mind in health and disease. The aim is to demonstrate that there were two major reasons why the two traditions valued dissimilarly the body and the soul. First, …
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Posterior segmental spinal fixation in Scoliosis surgery
… was first described in the 5th century BC by Hippocrates. He recommended treatment with axial distraction on an extension apparatus (figure 1).
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… and later by the four elemental doctrines of Hippocrates. Hippocrates believed that digestion was a process of internal cooking or "coction" as performed by the cardinal fluids, blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile, - the whole process being one of "innate heat".
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Studies in Experimentally Produced High Intestinal Obstruction
… profoundly ill of intestinal obstruction. And Hippocrates' later admonition | "... Wherefore one should attend to this; that when the feet are cold, the bowels are necessarily hot, and filled with nauseous matters; the hypochondrium distended; there is jactitation of the body, owing to the …
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THE RATE OF DIFFUSION OF SODIUM SALICYLATE AND SALICYLIC ACID IN VARIOUS VEHICLES
… has been recorded as early as the time of Hippocrates. Dioscorides used a decoction of willow leaves or of the ash of willow bark for the removal of corns and in treating ear-ache, skin diseases and gout. Salicylic acid has been used as a medicament in this study because it is a therapeutic …
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… medicine, or from the ideas of the Romans. | Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, taught that gastric digestion was brought about by a sort of internal cooking or coction, possibly through the agency of the "innate heat11 of the body, derived from the blood,one of the four cardinal fluids. | …
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Hypnosis as an Analgesia in Labor and Delivery
… that they picked up hypnosis from the Egyptians. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, Said, "The affections suffered by the body the soul sees quite well with shut eyes." Among the Romans, Aesculapius often threw his patients into "deep Sleep" and allayed pain by stroking with his hand. | A great …
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Use of Spinal Traction in the Complex Treatment of Lumbar Disc Disease /// Ролята на екстензионната терапия в комплексното лечение на поясната дискова болест
… One of them is traction used since Hippocrates’ time. Extensive research of the efficiency of the complex appliance of pre-formal physical factors and traction on the functional recovery of patients suffering from lumbar disc disease has been conducted, based on scientific evidence, …
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The actions of rubellin and prorubellin, (in comparison with transvaalin)
… as Dioscorides, Celsus, Theophrastus, and Galen. Hippocrates used it. Preparations of the bulb of the sea onion (Squill, Scilla maritime L., Urginea maritime Baker) were used therapeutically by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, i.e. by peoples of the Mediterranean region where the plant …
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The Ethics of Futility Across the Age Continuum
… of its existence dating back to the time of Hippocrates. However, the majority of the research on the topic has been on the adult population. Very little literature addresses the presence of medically futile treatment across the age continuum identifying issues that impact neonates, …
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Maternal environment and offspring physiology : the inheritance of information across a generation
… AD philosophers and biologists ranging from Hippocrates to Charles Darwin hypothesized that information about the environment could be passed from parents to progeny. However, in 1893, German biologist August Weismann tested these hypotheses and based on his observations concluded that …
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Organ Donation in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Quality of Life of Living Liver Donors
… practice and is contrary to the solemn advice of Hippocrates who said, "first do not harm (Gillon, 1985)."</p><p> The purpose of this dissertation was to longitudinally explore the quality of life (QOL) and health status of living donors after the donation.</p><p> The phase 1 study was done in …
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Treatment of gonorrhoeal arthritis by artificial fever
Since the days of Hippocrates fever has been a major concern of physicians. Originally and for a long time it was regarded as a defensive mechanism against disease. Then, following the work of Claude Bernard , Virchow and others , who demonstrated suppos - edly harmful physiological and …
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Noma in northwest Nigeria: a neglected disease in neglected populations
… status. Despite its ancient history (reported by Hippocrates (460 - 370 BC)), noma-related literature remains mainly confined to case reports and case series. By employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, we sought to examine the biopsychosocial features of noma, its epidemiology and …
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The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800
This dissertation develops a conceptual history of human anatomy, both as a discipline and as an epistemological model. Building on recent scholarship in the history of science, I argue that the basic organization of anatomical inquiry inspired a number of literary productions during the …