Gordon (1943) stated that all cases of urethritis were gonococcal in origin. Mast (1948) thought N.G.U. was a new disease. Viewing the subject from a historical standpoint, Harkness (1950) quoted Luys (1922) to the effect that Aretaeus of Cappadocia in the 1st century A.D. had distinguished between spermatorrhoea and pathological discharges and had recognized a thick white discharge from acute ...

A medical condition producing excessive thirst, continuous urination, and severe weight loss has interested medical authors for over three millennia. Unfortunately, until the early part of twentieth century the prognosis for a patient with this condition was no better than it was over 3000 years ago. Since the ancient physicians described almost exclusively cases of what is today known as type ...

Objective – to summarize the various hypotheses regarding development of Trigeminal Neuralgia with a brief discussion about causes for its co-existence Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia, which has been seen infrequently. Summary background - Cranial nerve neuralgia is one most common pain syndromes attributed extreme (extremely) detrimental effects on middle age population who are more productive. The...

W riting in the sixteenth century B.C., the Egyptians described diabetes as the dissolving of flesh in urine and promoted its treatment with diets high in carbohydrate as a means of combating the loss of fuels. Early in the first century, Aretaeus of Cappadocca endorsed these suggestions, recommending a diet of milk, cereals, and starch. By the early twentieth century, the whimsical rice, potat...

Bipolar disorders have a long history. Depression and mania are mankind’s oldest known mental disorders, and they were the first mental disorders conceptualised by Hippocrates as a part of medicine. Mania and depression as part of one and the same disease – what we today call bipolar disorder – was first described by the famous Greek physician of the first Century AD, Aretaeus of Cappadocia. Th...

Some of the earliest references to the appendix occur, appropriately, in the Egyptian' Book of the Dead,' and there is some evidence to suggest that the cause of death in some Egyptian mummies may have been appendicitis. Since then the management of acute appendicitis has continued to present difficulties, a record of which can be traced through Aretaeus of Cappadocia,2 Berengario da Carpi,3 Cl...

In the centuries between the great Greek founders of medicine and psychiatry, Hippocrates, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Galenos of Pergamon or Soranos of Ephesos (see Longrigg, 1993; Marneros and Angst, 2000; Angst and Marneros, 2001) and the father of the modern psychiatric systematics, Emil Kraepelin, at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, physicians and psychiatr...

The ultimate object of all types of dietary management before the introduction of insulin was to prevent emaciation and death: the consequences of metabolic derangements due to lack of insulin. Now, while dietary therapy continues to be important in minimizing the requirement for endogenous insulin or in balancing administered insulin, the major objects are changing to prevention of large vesse...

As described by Brillat-Savanin, for so many older persons it is the loss of the desire to eat that leads to a loss of enjoyment of life, weight loss and eventually death. The “ano r ex i a c a c h ex i a ” syndrome is characterized by poor appetite and a progressive depletion of caloric stores, body fat and muscle. Older persons often develop this “wasting syndrome” which is associated with an...