Medical History Archive
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Hygienic conditions in ancient Rome and modern London
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe Romans fully appreciated the importance of a plentiful and wholesome supply of water, for domestic purposes, to the health of the community. -
Motherhood and Childbirth in Pharaonic Egypt
Posted on December 22, 2011 | No CommentsBarrenness was dreaded. If a woman could not conceive, pleas were made to the deities connected with fertility and childbirth, such as Bes, Taweret, and above all, Hathor. -
Pharmacological practices of ancient Egypt
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsEgyptian drug therapy can be regarded as having evolved from a system rooted in magic to one of empiric observation applied within a central ideology of health and disease. -
The Athenian Plague
Posted on December 4, 2011 | No CommentsDuring the years 430-426/5 BCE, a plague afflicted the city of Athens. -
Malaria and Alexander the Great: How important is family history?
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No CommentsAlexander the Great died from an acute febrile illness in 323 BC. Recent analyses have suggested several possible causes of his death and one among them is malaria. -
Ancient depiction of childbirth found at Etruscan site in Tuscany
Posted on October 28, 2011 | No CommentsAn archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy’s Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving birth to a child. -
Sexual attitudes, preferences and infections in Ancient Greece: has antiquity anything useful for us today?
Posted on September 29, 2011 | No CommentsGreek society, not least concerning all aspects of sex, was well ordered, frank and tolerant. Some of the areas of Greek society's structure and functioning which differ most markedly from ours, and seem to have determined a modest STD problem, are highlighted and discussed. -
Otology in Medical Papyri in Ancient Egypt
Posted on September 13, 2011 | No CommentsOtology in Medical Papyri in Ancient Egypt By Albert Mudry The Mediterranean Journal of Otology, Vol.3 (2006) Abstract: Ancient Egyptian medicine evolved in a unique environment. Three main historical sources are... -
Madness in Context in the Histories of Herodotus
Posted on September 12, 2011 | No CommentsMadness in Context in the Histories of Herodotus By Abigail Rebecca Dawson PhD Dissertation, University of Auckland, 2006 Abstract: This thesis is a study of the way Herodotus uses madness in... -
Seneca in his cultural and literary context : selected moral letters on the body
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsSeneca in his cultural and literary context : selected moral letters on the body By Irene Marianne Conradie Quaestiones Infinitae, Volume 60 (2010) Abstract: This thesis examines, on a case...