Medical History

Greek medicine after Hippocrates reached a peak in Alexandria and shortly afterward began to infiltrate Rome, which exercised…

The ancient region of southwest Asia known as Mesopotamia is literally “between rivers”: the Tigris and Euphrates, which…

The Biblical Hebrews may have inherited a number of their beliefs from ancient Mesopotamian cultures, among them a…

Until the seven known medical papyruses were discovered during the last century, our knowledge of ancient Egyptian medicine…

The medical ideas and practices among primitive cultures of today show considerable variety, differing in accord with geography…

Before there were humans on earth, there was disease. But were the diseases of early animals the same…

Theodore Roosevelt (1858 — 1919) Theodore Roosevelt was the most forceful and aggressive President since Andrew Jackson and…

Andrew Jackson (1767 — 1845) May 30, 1806, marked the halfway point and the dramatic crisis in the…

James Madison (1751 — 1836) When James Madison was President, Washington Irving described him as a “withered little…