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De uisu: o mais antigo tratado supérstite de oftalmologia do Ocidente De uisu: the oldest surviving treatise on ophthalmology in the West

open access: yesHistória, 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

open access: yesStudia 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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Black Dhatura [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Description of the “Black Dhatura" plant and its importance in Ayurveda. Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of medicine that has developed and flourished at least since the time of the fourth Veda, Atharva-Veda.
Joshi, Himanshu   +3 more
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La couleur du sel : un blanc thérapeutique ?

open access: yesPallas, 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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Karanja [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Description of the "Karanja" plant and its importance in Ayurveda. Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of medicine that has developed and flourished at least since the time of the fourth Veda, Atharva-Veda.
Joshi, Himanshu   +3 more
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The Concept of Whole Substance in Galen’s "Simple Medicines"

open access: yesStudia 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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Traditional Family History & Training - Part 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
While Ayurveda is an ancient system of medicine, training for it involves many years of study as well as apprenticeship. The apprenticeship could run in the family, as from father to son, or in a more formal setting, as with an acclaimed teacher.
Joshi, Himanshu   +3 more
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The Ancient Hippocrates: Galen and the Apology of Medicin in the Proprepticus

open access: yesClassica 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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From the Editor [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
After the 1988 Conference, several members expressed an interest in an issue of Explorations in Ethnic Studies which would focus on ethnicity and health.

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Les voix de la douleur entre médecins et malades : le témoignage de l’Antiquité

open access: yesPallas, 2012
Pain is omnipresent in ancient medical treatises, in so far as it constitutes one of the main symptoms, even sometimes the only symptom, on which the doctor can base a diagnosis and a therapeutic indication.
Philippe Mudry
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