This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first contemporary account of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by Dr Robert Donald Teare, a pathologist working at St George’s hospital in London. In a now seminal case series in the British Heart Journal, Teare reported asymmetric hypertrophy of the interventricular septum in 8 patients between the ages of 14 and 44.1 Although widely recognised as a c...

Readers ask what I meant in my previous column by saying: ‘The basis for all organised human activity, whether governing a country, changing a job or undertaking a randomised controlled trial, is not facts. It is ideas that drive us’. As with politics or employment, so it is with public health nutrition. Here’s how the philosopher of science Steve Fuller makes the point: ‘The most salient featu...

THE recognition of pregnancy must have always exerted the acumen of physicians, not only on medical grounds, but for a host of social, legal, and political motives. These motives were certainly of paramount importance in such a highly organized society as Pharaonic Egypt, where wedding contracts with previously married women testify to that interest' (Jonckheere, I954). Moreover, in feudal or m...

what is known as 'Arabian Medicine"' (p. VII). Recent research, however, shows more and more that one cannot speak of a medieval Jewish medicine proper. Jewish physicians studied the Arabic medical works which are based on the Galenic medical tradition. A good example is Maimonides, who according to Jewish scholars, made such a great contribution to medieval medicine. But it now clear that he w...

n the Editorial Comment by Lavie and Milani (1) accompanying he report by Reeves and associates (2), the correspondents used as heir title “Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: The Hippocrates aradox?”. Lavie and Milani began their comment by quoting a tatement by Hippocrates, namely, “Sudden death is more comon in those who are naturally fat than in the lean.” Clearly ippocrates recognized the ...

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The re-appearance of old friends is always a cause for rejoicing, and when Cbadwick and Mann's The medical works of Hippocrates (less Coan Prognosis) comes revised with Withington's version of Fractures, three excellent new translations by I. M. Lonie, and a masterly introduction by G. E. R. Lloyd, our pleasure is great indeed. The older versions need no praise, and Lonie's fluent and judicious...