Hippocrates is considered to be the father of modern medicine because in his books, which are more than 70. He described in a scientific manner, many diseases and their treatment after detailed observation. He lived about 2400 years ago. He was born in the island of Kos and died at the outskirts of Larissa at the age of 104. Hippocrates taught and wrote under the shade of a big plane tree, its ...

In a group of postoperative patients, Taniguchi and coworkers compared the effect of a computerized system for weaning against 'manual care'. The computerized system involved automatic adjustments to the level of pressure support to achieve a target respiratory rate. Manual care involved adjustments to the level of pressure support to keep the ratio of respiratory frequency to tidal volume belo...

Historical Introduction One of the lessons I have learned in thirty years of lecturing to students is that if you take great care in preparing lectures, finding the best intuitions to explain a technique and refining the equations to their simplest form, then the students will learn a good deal, but will think of you as a little naive-" he only teaching the simple things " will be their thought...

the chapter entitled 'The scientific method', in which a remarkable range of thinkers and themes are introduced (his book also has the fuller index of the two). The greatest contrast between the two books is the way in which they engage with the existing literature. As already noted, each has a lengthy bibliography which is worth consulting in its own right. However, Henry makes repeated refere...

NOT LONG after the sense of pleasure at the privilege of being invited to give this Sydenham Lecture, I found myself troubled by my own attitude to what I knew of Sydenham. Like many others I had been introduced to Sydenham as the English Hippocrates, the clinical observer untrammelled by theory, and turning to Sydenham's Medical observations I had expected to find something similar to the clin...

First PEI treatment; official birth of the field of Interventional Oncology Davalos publishes mathematical analysis on IRE for tissue ablation Surgeon John Hunter describes how to operate on cancer Hippocrates develops the theory of black bile as cause for cancer Emil Grubbe performs first radiation treatment Sidney Farber achieves the first remission with chemotherapy in a child with leukemia ...