History of Medicine
History of Medicine section contains many aspects on the history of medicine, be it ancient medicine, medieval medicine, Egyptian Medicine or recent changes in modern medicine.
Egyptian Medicine
Number of View: 1682EGYPTIAN MEDICINE Out of the ocean of oblivion, man emerges in history in a highly civilized state on the banks of the Nile, some sixty centuries ago. After millenniums of a gradual upward progress, which can be traced in the records of the stone age, civilization springs forth Minerva-like, complete, and highly [...]
Origin of Medicine
Number of View: 6201Origin of Medicine Medicine arose out of the primal sympathy of man with man; out of the desire to help those in sorrow, need and sickness. In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering. The instinct of self-preservation, the longing [...]
Introduction to Origin of Medicine
Number of View: 1688INTRODUCTION TO ORIGIN OF MEDICINE Sail to the Pacific with some Ancient Mariner, and traverse day by day that silent sea until you reach a region never before furrowed by keel where a tiny island, a mere speck on the vast ocean, has just risen from the depths, a little coral reef [...]
Preface to Evolution of Modern Medicine
Number of View: 2153Preface to Evolution of Modern Medicine The manuscript of Sir William Osler’s lectures on the “Evolution of Modern Medicine,” delivered at Yale University in April, 1913, on the Silliman Foundation, was immediately turned in to the Yale University Press for publication. Duly set in type, proofs in galley form had been submitted [...]
The Silliman Foundation
Number of View: 1406THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION In the year 1883 a legacy of eighty thousand dollars was left to the President and Fellows of Yale College in the city of New Haven, to be held in trust, as a gift from her children, in memory of their beloved and honored mother, Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman. [...]
The Hippocratic Oath
Number of View: 572About Hippocrates Hippocrates, the celebrated Greek physician, was a contemporary of the historian Herodotus. He was born in the island of Cos between 470 and 460 B. C., and belonged to the family that claimed descent from the mythical AEsculapius, son of Apollo. There was already a long medical tradition in Greece [...]
