( 2011 ) " The ancient origins of prosthetic medicine " Lancet 377 ( 9765 ): pp. 548 – 549

* Reeves, Nicholas ( 1999 ) " New lights on ancient Egyptian prosthetic medicine " In: Davies, W. V. ( editor ) ( 1999 ) Studies in Egyptian Antiquities.

* Trauma ( medicine ), an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb

Emergency medicine has evolved to treat conditions that pose a threat to life, limb, or have a significant risk of morbidity.

The term is similar to profiteering but can be distinguished by being short-term and localized, and by a restriction to essentials such as food, clothing, shelter, medicine and equipment needed to preserve life, limb and property.

Castor oil, made from castorbeans, has gone out of style as a medicine.

Anatomy ( from the Ancient Greek, anatemnein: ana, " separate, apart from ", and temnein, " to cut up, cut open ") is a branch of biology and medicine that considers the structure of living things.

A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31 % of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine .< ref name = Ernst_Cassileth > Alternative medicine varies from country to country.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

However, the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections seen in clinical practice stems from antibiotic use both within human medicine and veterinary medicine.

Edo period advertising flyer from 1806 for a traditional medicine called Kinseitan

Roughly 88 % of people affected with AVM are asymptomatic ; often the malformation is discovered as part of an autopsy or during treatment of an unrelated disorder ( called in medicine " an incidental finding "); in rare cases its expansion or a micro-bleed from an AVM in the brain can cause epilepsy, deficit or pain.

His reputation so increased the fame of the University of Leiden, especially as a school of medicine, that it became popular with visitors from every part of Europe.

The science of biostatistics encompasses the design of biological experiments, especially in medicine and agriculture ; the collection, summarization, and analysis of data from those experiments ; and the interpretation of, and inference from, the results.

Over the last 40 years biochemistry has become so successful at explaining living processes that now almost all areas of the life sciences from botany to medicine are engaged in biochemical research.

Also from Greece, Pedanius Dioscorides, in the middle of the first century, wrote De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1, 500 years.

Bernardino Ochino was born in Siena son of the barber Domenico Ochino, and at the age of 7 or 8 around 1504 was entrusted to the Minorite order of Franciscan Friars, then from 1510 he studied medicine at Perugia.

Apart from learning how to exist on one meal a day and other artistic exercises, he worked at an open-air park show, sang and yodelled with any band that would have him and worked with a traveling medicine show.

When asked if his wisecracking and talking on the bandstand came from his medicine show experience, he said it did not.

The word chemistry comes from the word alchemy, an earlier set of practices that encompassed elements of chemistry, metallurgy, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, mysticism and medicine ; it is commonly thought of as the quest to turn lead or another common starting material into gold.

By 1000 BC ancient civilizations were using technologies that formed the basis of the various branches of chemistry such as ; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.

Activated charcoal is used as an absorbent and adsorbent in filter material in applications as diverse as gas masks, water purification and kitchen extractor hoods and in medicine to absorb toxins, poisons, or gases from the digestive system.

In medicine, consciousness is assessed by observing a patient's arousal and responsiveness, and can be seen as a continuum of states ranging from full alertness and comprehension, through disorientation, delirium, loss of meaningful communication, and finally loss of movement in response to painful stimuli.

Ancient Greek schools of medicine were split ( into the Knidian and Koan ) on how to deal with disease.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

In addition, despite his major impact on Ancient Egyptian architecture and field of medicine, even ancient historians failed to write about him, which adds to his mystery.

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The Ancient Greek medicine | Greek physician Hippocrates ( ca.

Ancient Indian medicine, Ayurveda has recommended its use in food for its medicinal value, much of which is now being researched in the modern day.

He was well-versed in Ancient Persian, Greek and Ancient Indian medical knowledge and made numerous advances in medicine through own observations and discoveries.

* Ancient Greek medicine

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Charaka Monument in the Pantanjali Yogpeeth Campus, Haridwar, IndiaCharaka, sometimes spelled Caraka, born c. 300 BC was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India.

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Some examples of strong informal and to some degree institutionalized folk medicine traditions are: Traditional Korean medicine, Arabic indigenous medicine ( source of Unani medicine, along with Ancient Greek medicine ), Haitian folk medicine, Uyghur traditional medicine, Various African herbal folk remedies, Celtic traditional medicine ( in part practiced by the Irish medical families ), Japanese Kampō medicine, Traditional Aboriginal Bush medicine, Georgian folk medicine, and other.

Its author is a renowned expert in Greek and Arabic medicine who has paid considerable attention to Avicenna in his recent studies [...].

In medicine, a coma ( from the Greek koma, meaning deep sleep ) is a state of unconsciousness lasting more than six hours, in which a person: cannot be awakened ; fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound ; lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle ; and, does not initiate voluntary actions.

Bradycardia (; Greek βραδυκαρδία, bradykardía, " heart slowness "), in the context of adult medicine, is the resting heart rate of under 60 beats per minute, though it is seldom symptomatic until the rate drops below 50 beats / min.

In ancient Greek medicine, each of the four humours became associated with an element.

In ancient Greek medicine, each of the four humours became associated with an element.

In ancient Greek medicine, each of the four humours became associated with an element.

In ancient Greek medicine, each of the four humours became associated with an element.

Cryonics ( from Greek κρύος kryos-meaning icy cold ) is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future.

Apollo Smintheus ( Greek ), the mouse killer eliminates mice, a primary cause of disease, hence he promotes preventive medicine.

Endocrinology ( from Greek, endo, " within ";, krīnō, " to separate "; and ,-logia ) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of developmental events such as proliferation, growth, and differentiation ( including histogenesis and organogenesis ) and the coordination of metabolism, respiration, excretion, movement, reproduction, and sensory perception depend on chemical cues, substances synthesized and secreted by specialized cells.

The term empirical was originally used to refer to certain ancient Greek practitioners of medicine who rejected adherence to the dogmatic doctrines of the day, preferring instead to rely on the observation of phenomena as perceived in experience.

Epicurus ' teachings were introduced into medical philosophy and practice by the Epicurean doctor Asclepiades of Bithynia, who was the first physician who introduced Greek medicine in Rome.

Greek roots are often used to coin new words for other languages, especially in the sciences and medicine ; Greek and Latin are the predominant sources of the international scientific vocabulary.

Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism, as advanced by many ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates.

Hippocrates and Galen form important landmarks of 600 years of Greek medicine.

Thus Galen summarised and synthesised the work of his predecessors, and it is in Galen's words ( Galenism ) that Greek medicine was handed down to subsequent generations, such that Galenism became the means by which Greek medicine was known to the world.

Greek medicine was part of Greek culture, and Syrian Eastern Christians came in contact with it while the Eastern Roman Empire ( Byzantium ) ruled Syria and Western Mesopotamia, regions that were conquered from Byzantium in the 7th century by Arab Muslims.

Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (; Hippokrátēs ; c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC ) was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles ( Classical Greece ), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

Historians agree that Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BC on the Greek island of Kos ( Cos ), and became a famous ambassador for medicine against the strong opposing infrastructure of Greece.