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Une histoire trouble : l’adjectif μελάγχλωρος et sa transmission dans les textes médicaux grecs
Pallas, 2021 From Hippocratic texts and up to the Byzantine period, the adjective μελάγχλωρος, literally “black-green”, raised debates for its interpretation. Like many adjectives indicating a dichromy, its meaning is difficult to grasp in a precise manner and lends ...
Alessia Guardasole
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Current Neuropharmacology, 2023 Alzheimer's is a chronic neurodegenerative disease where amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are formed inside the brain. It is also characterized by progressive memory loss, depression, neuroinflammation, and derangement of other ...
Shikha Kushwah +5 more
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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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Preliminary Notes on the Physician Krateuas (2nd–1st Century BC). A New Collection of his T and F
Studia Ceranea, 2021 The physician Krateuas lived in the first part of the 1st century BC, worked at the court of Mithridates and wrote a Rhizotomikon (Herbal) of which only a few fragments remain. More than a century ago, Max Wellmann studied this physician (1897; 1898) and
Giuseppe Squillace
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Mandrake in ancient Graeco-Roman and early Byzantine medicine [PDF]
Farmacja Polska, 2023 Belonging to Mandragora genus and to the Solanaceae family, mandrake (Mandragora officinarum L.) is a plant native to the Mediterranean area. According to modern science, due to the presence of alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, belladonnine and ...
Krzysztof Jagusiak +2 more
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Traditional ancient Egyptian medicine: A review
Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2021 The ancient Egyptians practiced medicine with highly professional methods. They had advanced knowledge of anatomy and surgery. Also, they treated a lot of diseases including dental, gynecological, gastrointestinal, and urinary disorders.
A. Metwaly +7 more
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Cardiocentrism in ancient medicines
IJC Heart & Vasculature, 2023 History of cardiology starts scientifically in 1628, when William Harvey (1578-1657) published his revolutionary book Extercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, where he described "general" circulation, movements and functions of heart, heart valves, veins and arteries [1].
Fabio Zampieri +2 more
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Nanoclays in medicine: a new frontier of an ancient medical practice
Materials Advances, 2022 Clays have been used as early as 2500 BC in human civilization for medicinal purposes. The ease of availability, biocompatibility, and versatility of these unique charged 2D structures abundantly available in nature have enabled the extensive ...
K. Katti +4 more
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Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2021 An international ban on psychedelics initiated by the United Nations’ Convention on Psychotropic Substances in 1971 restricted the clinical use of these ancient psychoactive substances. Yet, in an era marked by rising mental health concerns and a growing
D. George +3 more
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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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