chosen to claim it for their own, and the meaning of many of its phrases has long been the subject of doubt and discussion. This beautifully produced edition will go far towards informing the German reader of the difficulties of interpreting the Oath, and will alert him to some of the dangers of an eager identification of ancient and modern. He will also gain from some of the commentators' subt...

‘Hippocrates’ the father of modern medicine; characterized ‘pleuritis’ by some demarcating features such as chest pain, fever, chills with shivering, dry cough associated breathing difficulties orthopnoea & tachypnoea. Pleuritis can be differentiated into its marked tributaries like sanguineous, bilious, which is a subject to well precised diagnosis avoid forthcoming execrable complications ple...

Human being has always been suffering from diseases. Before the beginning of Ṭibb (medicine) (300Bc), superstitions were considered as cause disease. Therefore, Gods and Goddesses worshipped to cure disease regain health. Since existence medicine, material is a Accordingly, treatment shifted towards material. In 500 BC Buqrat (Hippocrates) started discussion He established views structure, co...

We have been interested in the cleansing capacity of skin during the recent years. In a paper of ours (1) we presented a few references to Hippocrates' and Galen's ideas on the subject, while the main body of the article was based on the 17th-20th centuries' relative practices. In a second paper (2), we were mainly testing the ancient and Medieval Greek ideas on skin catharsis against some clin...

Current understanding of carotid artery disease begins in Ancient Greece. The term carotid is derived from the Ancient Greek karos (κάρος), meaning to stupefy. This first description is ascribed to Hippocrates (ca. 460–370 BC) but defined in the later accounts of Rufus of Ephesus (fl. ca. AD 100), who stated that the term was used because superficial compression of the vessels was known to indu...

INTRODUCTION Swearing to a medical oath is a common practice in medical schools today. Students at the Medical School for International Health (MSIH) participate in an elaborate physician's oath ceremony held in the first year of studies. At this ceremony, students read a code of ethics written by their class, the content of which includes the ethical principles the class as a whole deems signi...