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Psychosomatic disorders in ancient Greek medicine [PDF]
Psychiatriki, 2018 The concept of psychosomatic disorders, as defined by modern medicine, was difficult to be perceived by the ancient Greek physicians. Two main reasons contributed to this. One was that physicians in Greek antiquity had formed the idea that the mental illnesses that were recognized at that time, namely mania, melancholy, frenzy, caros, lethargy ...
Laios, K. +5 more
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Perché I Medici Parlano Ancora Il Greco?
Classica Cracoviensia, 2021 Although the extraordinary progress in medicine since the 19th century has made Hippocrates and Galen irrelevant, Greek and Greek-derived terms continue to be used in the medical sciences today. The marked ability of the Greek language to form compounds
Ioannis Petropoulos
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La mandragore, non seulement un analgesique narcotique: sa place dans la medecine et la civilisation grecque antique [PDF]
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2018 The mandrake, not just a narcotic: its place in medicine and ancient greek civilization Hippocrates and his followers, as well as Pedanius Dioscorides, Pseudo-Galen and Aretaeus of Cappadocia are just a few of the many ancient Greek physicians who ...
Konstantinos LAIOS +4 more
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Tracés, 2023 Our notion of crisis comes from ancient Greek through learned medical usage, which continued into the Middle Ages and modern times. However, this continuity does not necessarily mean that the two concepts are perfectly superimposed.
Vivien Longhi
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Hernia in ancient Hellenic art. A paradigm of blended courses of anatomy and surgery, or a votive offering in theurgical medicine? 14 views [PDF]
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2019 Hernia was a common problem in Hellenic antiquity as we may infer by a plethora of references in ancient Greek and especially in Byzantine medical literature.
Konstantinos LAIOS +3 more
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Drugs for mental illnesses in ancient greek medicine [PDF]
Psychiatriki, 2019 Drugs with psychedelic, hypnotic, narcotic, analgesic, suppressive, euphoric and stimulating effects were used in various ways during the ancient times. We can classify drug use in ancient times into two main categories. On the one hand, ancient physicians prescribed drugs based on their pharmaceutical-therapeutic actions. On the other hand, people not
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Lexicon Philosophicum, 2021 Scholars of Greek and Roman science – and especially of ancient medicine – have been debating for several years which notions of ‘contagion’, i.e. the transmission of a disease from an individual to another, classical antiquity may have had.
Francesca Alesse
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Burn Care in the Greek and Roman Antiquity
Medicina, 2020 The last century brought about more rapid new developments in the treatment of burns, which significantly lowered the mortality of burn injuries. However, burns were already treated in antiquity, where the threshold from spirituality to scientific ...
Christoph Wallner +5 more
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From ancient Greek medicine to EP³OS
Rhinology journal, 2010 The manuscripts of eminent Byzantine physicians from the 4th to the 14th century contain extensive information on various otorhinolaryngological issues. In their work, the early knowledge of rhinological disease from definition and symptoms to conservative treatment and surgical intervention is intriguing.
E P, Prokopakis +3 more
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The thymus gland in ancient Greek medicine [PDF]
Hormones, 2018 The term thymus was used in ancient Greek medical literature to describe not only the thymus gland but also the warty excrescences found mainly in the genitals or the anus, but also over the entire body. Rufus of Ephesus (1st-2nd c. AD) gave the earliest anatomical description of this gland in humans, while Galen (1st-2nd c.
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