HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE—This may be temporary, but should be watched and life regulated as above, especially avoiding physical and mental overstrain and dissipation.
The medical examinations for military service showed that about one-third of the men suffered from physical defects which made them unfit for active military duty.
Even while the war was claiming thousands of lives on the European battlefields, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost right here at home because of preventable diseases.
If a carpenter is hammering nails into the wall, or if a shoemaker is sewing leather to make a shoe, it does not matter very much how the light falls,...
Once in a great battle on the river Nile some British soldiers had to be awake so long and work so hard by day and by night that at last some of them fell asleep on the deck of the ship in the midst of the fighting.
Your teacher will take you to the basement to-day, if she can, and you will see the furnaces, the hot-air pipes, and the fresh-air shafts,—provided a furnace is used.
In the early years of the twentieth century, Dutch physicist Willem Einthoven adapted to medical practice a newly discovered instrument for measuring minute electric currents.
The firm knowledge that bacteria were causes of diseases and were the transmissible agents responsible for contagion was acquired in the nineteenth century...
Although the early decades of the nineteenth century were a virtual continuation of medical developments in the previous century, two particular advances...
It is often thought that the eighteenth century—with its insistence on a rational and scientific approach to all the historic issues confronting mankind—succeeded in sweeping away forever the tyranny of medieval dogma.
Even in the desperate depths of the Middle Ages, social, economic, and cultural events were underway which would burst forth in the mid-fifteenth century in that unparalleled phenomenon known as the Renaissance.
Western Europe emerged from the Dark Ages about the year 1000 in a spirit of enthusiasm, optimism, and cultural unity difficult for us to understand today...
Medical education was truly established in neither the monastic communities of orders such as the Benedictines nor the cathedral schools of the renascent Holy Roman Empire...
During the first five centuries of the Christian era, barbarian invasions of the West, recurrent disasters and pestilences, and the zealous anti-Hellenism of the Christian...
The Fall of Rome to the Goths in 476 and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks are often cited as marking the beginning and end of the Middle Ages.
The early followers of the crucified Jesus Christ of Nazareth were convinced of the imminence of his Second Coming, the Day of Judgment, and the resulting end of the "here and now."
Greek medicine after Hippocrates reached a peak in Alexandria and shortly afterward began to infiltrate Rome, which exercised hegemony over the Greek world after 146 B.C.
Over many centuries, the warrior heroes, the medical craftsmen, and the gymnasts of ancient Greece had accumulated a store of pragmatic information on...
When Greek medicine is mentioned, the name of Hippocrates is usually called to mind as the personification of a rational, nonreligious approach to medical practice.
In ancient Chinese cosmology, the universe was created not by divinities but self-generated from the interplay of nature's basic duality: the active, light, dry, warm...
The earliest culture in India of which we have archaeological evidence centered on Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, chief cities of the Indus valley civilization, which flourished from about 2500 to 1500 B.C.
The Biblical Hebrews may have inherited a number of their beliefs from ancient Mesopotamian cultures, among them a conviction that disease was divine punishment and therefore a mark of sin.
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