The aim of this critical analysis is to present the medical ethics of Galen in his treatise "The Best Physician is Also a Philosopher").Galen opens with the example of Hippocrates as a paradigm of his medical ethics, and continues by saying that the knowledge of the human body must be profound. In the third part of the treatise he stresses the importance of logic, precise use of language, study...

This paper contains an analysis and appreciation of one of Moses Maimonides' authentic medical works, his Treatise on Asthma. After a brief biographical section, passages from the work are cited and analysed to illustrate the approach of this medieval physician who organised the knowledge of Greeks and others who preceded him. Maimonides presents a logical and systematic approach to the prevent...

This monograph is the outcome of the careful study of about 250 cases of varicocele seen in hospital and private practice, and of a large number of dissections and post mortem examinations. The two most important points insisted upon by the author are: (1) That one cause only is concerned in the actual origin of the affection, viz.?congenital abnormality; and (2) That the best mode of operating...

The aim of this article is to address the relation between a usercentred objective and social constructionism and the possibility to refine usercentred fundamentals by enhancing the awareness of the relation between humans and the constructed environment. Through social constructionism we could enter a bit deeper into questions like; (1) reality’s subjective character especially concerning tech...

"Unripe" Cataract.By William A. McKeown, m.d., m. ch., Surgeon to the Ulster Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Belfast, London: H. K. Lewis, Gower Street, 1898. Illustrated by 9 Plates, containing GO original drawings. Royal 8vo. 125. Gel. net. It is just fourteen years since Dr. McKeown introduced his treatment of immature cataract by intra-ocular injection and irrigation, bringing it to the notic...