Different aspects of medicine and/or healing in several societies are presented. In the ancient times as well as today medicine has been closely related to magic, science and religion. Various ancient societies and cultures had developed different views of medicine. It was believed that a human being has two bodies: a visible body that belongs to the earth and an invisible body of heaven. In th...

to express their ideas, feeling, and imagination, a large number of ancient arab poets employed terminologies current in that period, especially those related to spices and herbals and their advantages. their main impetus came from their investigative instinct as well as their religious beliefs that emphasize the importance of herbals for their medical and nutritional benefits. hence, such subj...

ancient India on osteology in an English dress. The only work with which we are acquainted in which any detailed description of ancient Indian medicine has been attempted, is the "Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine," published in 1845 by Thomas Alexander Wise, of the Bengal Medical Service, Civil Surgeon of Hughli and Principal of the Hughli College. That work summarizes the whole syste...

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Dreams preoccupied the Greek and Roman world in antiquity, therefore they had a prominent role in social, philosophical, religious, historical and political life of those times. They were considered as omens and prophetic signs of future events in private and public life, and that was particularly accentuated when elements of actions which took place in the plot of dreams were associated direct...