This article presents a research on the occurrences of Pithanon in Galen’s On Doctrines Hippocrates and Plato (PHP). Galen writes PHP to critique doctors, Peripatetics, stoics about powers that govern man. He considers his criticism be justifiable because they have come wrong conclusions selection premises. According him, opponents' are based persuasive, mistaken, ambiguous or false assumptions...

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...

Cardiac cachexia, a syndrome characterized by systemic destruction, nutritional impairment and weight loss [1], has a prevalence ranging between 8 and 42% around the world [2]. The syndrome was first described by the father of medicine, Hippocrates, as follows: “the flesh is consumed and becomes water; shoulders, clavicles, chest and thighs melt away. The illness is fatal” [3]. Currently the mo...

Leg ulcer is a leading cause of morbidity among older subjects, especially women in the Western world. About 400 years BC, Hippocrates wrote, "In case of an ulcer, it is not expedient to stand, especially if the ulcer be situated on the leg". Hippocrates himself had a leg ulcer. The best treatment of any leg ulcer depends upon the accurate diagnosis and the underlying aetiology. The majority of...

Medical geography was an abiding but at times peripheral concern of the medical art in nineteenth-century France. This article reviews selected works of the major medical geographers and examines the conditions of their emergence. Only mildly concerned with the values of cartographic precision, the article lays a foundation for future investigations into the subliminal geography of the medical ...

A year has now passed since the Francis Inquiry published its recommendations, after examining the causes of the failings in care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. A key message concerned the need to nurture a “common culture of caring, commitment and compassion”. This is not a new concept – in the fifth century BC, Hippocrates wrote to the effect that where there is love of humanity, ...