THE HiPPocRAInc OATH is universally known in the western medical world. A document comparable in antiquity yet unknown to most modem physicians is the oath of initiation of medical students that is found in the Charaka Samhita. The Charaka Samhita is a highly-esteemed ancient medical text. The approximate dates of composition and the general contents of the Charaka Samhita were briefly discusse...

Worth Estes's main interest lies in why and how ancient physicians used drugs to combat their patients' ailments. He considers the role of the physician in ancient Egypt, from Imhotep (deified by later generations as an Egyptian god of medicine) to the general practitioners. The two main sources of evidence for medicine in ancient Egypt are the medical papyri and the archaeological information ...

"Acromion" is one of many anatomical terms derived from ancient Greek: it is a transliteration of the Greek word dxp ptov (akromion). For the modern anatomist "acromion" has a precise meaning: "The lateral extension of the spine of the scapula, forming the highest point of the shoulder."' For the ancient Greek writers after Hippocrates, however, the meaning of ezicpd'ltov was a matter of doubt ...

the structure of the materials inside a medical bag needs to be arranged in such a manner, that the treating physician to be able, even blindfolded, to quite his way through, in order to easy grasp every instrument and tool. this was an axiom firstly recorded by hippocrates in ancient greece. on the other hand, egyptians and palestinians used medical kids at about the same era, followed in late...