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Food for Life: Galen’s "On Health" ("De sanitate tuenda")
Studia Ceranea, 2023 In Galen’s view, health was a natural state and disease unnatural. If a body became unwell, balance was best restored by adjustments to daily life, in particular to the environment, food and drink, exercise, sleep, physiological balance and mental health.
John Wilkins
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Galen’s Recipe for Untypical Sitz Bath (ἐγκάθισμα)
Erga-Logoi, 2023 The article discusses an unusual prescription for a sitz bath (ἐγκάθισμα) derived from Galen’s treatise De compositione medicamentorum per genera. The term ἐγκάθισμα is not used in any other known fragment of the writings of the famous Pergamonian.
Krzysztof Jagusiak, Konrad Tadajczyk
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2012 Apresenta-se aqui, em língua portuguesa, o tratado mais antigo que o Ocidente nos legou acerca da oftalmologia, "Sobre a visão" ou em latim De uisu, com um estudo introdutório que tem por fim situá-lo na história da medicina, sem, contudo, abdicar da ...
Henrique Cairus
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Aconite – a Poison, or a Medicine? Ancient and Early Byzantine Testimonies
Studia Ceranea, 2022 Aconite (Aconitum napellus) was one of the most notorious, poisonous plants in the ancient world. Its dangerous, lethal power – present in leaves, roots, stem, and tuber – was well known to the Greeks and the Romans from the earliest times.
Krzysztof Jagusiak +1 more
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La couleur du sel : un blanc thérapeutique ?
Pallas, 2021 Does the colour of salt play a part in its medical properties ? The effects of salt were well-known by the Ancients who considered it as a desiccating and antiseptic product, but have they a link with its chalky colour ?
Evelyne Samama
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The Ancient Hippocrates: Galen and the Apology of Medicin in the Proprepticus
Classica Cracoviensia, 2014 Ancient Hippocrates: Galen and the Apology of Medicin in the Proprepticus Easy as it is to consider Galen’s Protrepticus a straightforward exercise in the art of hortative rhetorics, it seems advisable to consider the ramifications and the role ...
Joanna Komorowska
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The Concept of Whole Substance in Galen’s "Simple Medicines"
Studia Ceranea, 2021 Galen’s great treatise on drugs, Simple Medicines, begins with 5 theoretical books which explain the mechanisms of drug actions in the following catalogues. The key agent of change is the mixture of the qualities hot, cold, wet and dry.
John Wilkins
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Health Promotion & Physical Activity, 2019 The history of ancient Egypt covers three millennia before the birth of the Christ. Information about medicine in that country, mainly found in papyrus, prove the occurrence of diseases known today and magic-rational therapy used by Egyptian physicians -
Jerzy Supady
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Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
Health Promotion & Physical Activity, 2019 The beginnings of the history of Mesopotamia date back to the mid second millennium before Christ. Various peoples settled down in that region and created more or less stable state organisms which, as the centauries passed, demonstrated and shared common
Jerzy Supady
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Health Promotion & Physical Activity, 2020 After Hippocrates, Galen was one of the most outstanding physicians of the ancient world. He was born in Pergamon in c. 131 AD, but soon upon completion of his medical studies he went to become physician-in-ordinary to the Roman Emperors.
Jerzy Supady
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