Historical facts about medicine and clinics
Historical facts about medicine and clinics
The great benefit of small needs One of the earliest substrates to be studied by physicians was urine. There is information about it in extant ancient Chinese, ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek written sources, as well as in the Indian treatise “Ayurveda”. The color of urine, which can vary from light to dark brown, sometimes red, […]
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim The outstanding European (Swiss-born) physician who lived at the junction of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, an era of dissipating darkness that prefigured the Renaissance that followed, was the man known by the pseudonym Paracelsus. His real name was Philip Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim. He became […]
To Start… After the unprecedented rise of Greek medicine, one would have expected that in Rome, which had become the successor of Greece, it would continue to develop on an upward trajectory. However, this did not happen. For certain historical reasons, the decline of science, including medicine, rather began in Ancient Rome. During this era, […]
>> 1 << Despite the fact that the first written medical sources that have come down to us are the Egyptian papyri, which describe surgical operations and obstetrical practices (Berlin, London, Leiden papyri), the place of origin of modern medicine is considered ancient Greece, although there is no doubt that its origins are in the […]