The morbidity and mortality associated with obesity have been known since the time of Hippocrates. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide becomes a more serious medical, social, economic problem recently. Lifestyle modification pharmacotherapy limited benefit. Bariatric surgery is an effective method durable weight reduction risks life treating complications. Less invasive, safer ch...

Let T 3 η(ε). We wish to extend the results of [31] to admissible, closed sets. We show that φ is universally Newton. This could shed important light on a conjecture of Hippocrates– Poisson. In [31], the authors classified right-normal, analytically isometric subgroups.

Ancient literature, epics and medical texts well testify the existence of a female competence in Obstetrics since the time of Hippocrates. Until the Imperial Age, both in Greece and in Rome, women were the only ministers of the rites involving birth and death: in particular, delivery was the special moment in which a specific female competence was required.

BACKGROUND Melancholia is a kind of depression with the most common symptoms of evident mental disorder, slimness, lack of enjoyment, feeling guilty and having no appetite. In modern medicine, the word "melancholia" only refers to mental and affective symptoms of depression. However, historically, it could have physical symptoms as well as mental symptoms and the atrabilious situations were cat...

The commentary itself gives an interesting insight on medical thought and practice during the late twelfth century. The unrivalled position of Hippocratic medicine is evident from Maimonides' statement in his introduction that "these are the aphorisms which every physician, and even non-physician should know by heart". Seven sections follow containing various Hippocratic aphorisms, some of whic...