Historical Aspects of Celtic Medicine

Historical aspects of unconventional medicine: approaches, concepts, case studies

his work or the circumstances of his appointment. Eschewing intellectual history, thus, Oliver has produced a short book, but an interesting and useful one. The medical school is well situated in the wider social and political context and, unusually, continues to be well situated to the present day. Medical schools and hospitals need long memories. When advocates of market reform campaigned to ...

Historical aspects of anxiety

"Anxiety" is a key term for behavioral, psychoanalytic, neuroendocrine, and psychopharmacological observations and theories. Commenting on its historical aspects is difficult, since history is properly a study of primary data. Unfortunately, much clinical anecdote does not correspond to factual records of a long time ago. Even reports of objective studies may suffer from allegiance effects. Thi...

Historical aspects of migraine.

The student of medicine first encountering the migraine literature will immediately perceive the extraordinary amount written, and will sense an unspoken frustrated fascination-a sort of blighted curiosity which pervades many accounts and descriptions. Enlightened self interest may explain some of the attention shown by physicians, since the incidence in our profession is as high as 30%. It is ...

The historical aspects of photocarcinogenesis.

The concept of photocarcinogenesis is of fairly recent duration. Although cancer of the breast is described in the ancient Greek medical literature, skin cancer is not mentioned even as late as the 18th Century. This is most likely due to the poor survival of humans, 80% of people did not live past 40 years, and only 6% lived longer than 60 years. The first association of skin cancer (face and ...

The historical aspects of sarcoidosis.