Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

THE exact relationship of philosophy to the sciences has long been a much-debated subject, although there is today general agreement among the writers on ancient thought. The older generations of ...

IN the past twenty-five hundred years the number of reviews, commentaries, critiques and translations of the Hippocratic writings is astounding. The effect of these writings in freeing medicine ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

But to understand this crazy period, we need to go back even further. Meet Hippocrates… the father of modern medicine and the owner of a fabulous beard. Unlike other doctors of the time who ...

One of the oldest medical texts in the world is the Ebers Papyrus, a 110-page-long compilation of treatments and cures written in around 1500 BC. The text, found between the legs of a mummified ...