Ancient Greeks gifted India numerous things and one of the greatest was the ancient Greek art of medicine, or "Unani" as ...

Ancient Greek medicine is probably the basis of modern scientific medicine. The first schools to develop in Greece were in Sicilly and Calabria, in what today is Italy.

The ancient Greek origin of humor reveals comedy’s hidden connection to health, exemplifying that laughter really is the best ...

YANNIS TOUNTAS, The historical origins of the basic concepts of health promotion and education: the role of ancient Greek philosophy and medicine, Health Promotion International, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June ...

Although we now have a far more detailed and accurate picture of medicine, the ancient Greeks can help us think through a number of topics that are still relevant today.

DR. SINGER here gives a succinct account of the general evolution of Greek biological and medical knowledge. The biological portion of the book is arranged in three sections, “Before Aristotle ...

Over my 54 years, I’ve pinned my hopes on my parents, my teachers, my romantic partners, God. I’m pinning them now on a shrub. It’s called mastic, it grows in particular abundance on the ...

LARKANA: President, Hamdard Foundation, Sadia Rashid said that Greek medicine is a living and dynamic science and art, which has been proving its importance for centuries. Pakistan is a self ...

OWEN H. WANGENSTEEN, Some Early Greek Heroes of Medicine; The Training of Surgeons and Some Post-Hunterian Schools of Surgery, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 ...

As scientific director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions at the Smithsonian, Alain Touwaide is compiling a database of medicinal plants of antiquity. Proficient in 12 ...

THE lecture entitled “The Hand in Healing: a Study in Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Ramazzini”, delivered before the Royal Institution on December 4 by Prof. B. Farrington, professor of ...