Back in the days of the Greek physician Hippocrates (460–377 BCE), practitioners recommended various plants, berries, and ...

Another shows the Greek physician Hippocrates tending to a patient in the fifth century B.C. The prints were doled out to doctors half a century ago by the pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis ...

The Greek physician Hippocrates described the symptoms of pneumonia 2,400 years ago. But this affliction of the lungs still kills more people in the United States than any other infectious disease ...

Finally, the widespread deployment of AI will catalyze change in almost every aspect of healthcare, including using AI to ...

The tale goes that Greek physician Hippocrates applied crushed snails to treat skin inflammations. Later on, snails were dunked in pots of salt water and vinegar that forced them to release the slime.

The Greek physician Hippocrates treats mental disorders as diseases to be understood in terms of disturbed physiology, rather than reflections of the displeasure of the gods or evidence of ...

About two millennia ago, the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen suggested that melancholia — depression brought on by an excess of “black bile” in the body — contributed to cancer. Since then, ...

It is believed that Greek physician Hippocrates first coined the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe tumors formed on his patients. However, earlier evidence of cancers has been found in an ...

Hippocrates of Cos, c. 460 BC to c. 370 BC, was an important figure in the ancient medical world. The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was hailed by Medieval doctors as the ‘Father of ...