Historical facts about medicine and clinics
Historical facts about medicine and clinics
Medicine in the 19th century The nineteenth century can be called the time when medicine was fully formed as a science. Mysticism, witchcraft and ecclesiastical practices no longer had a place in medicine. The knowledge accumulated and processed in previous periods of history began to produce practical results, expressed in an increase in life expectancy, […]
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, […]
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 […]