Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... drew on the Greek and Roman theory of humors, attributed ...

drawing upon ancient Greek texts rediscovered by Arabic sources Medical understanding in the Middle Ages was underpinned by the idea of the "four humours". Dr Freeman, the library's curator of ...

The Edwin Smith Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical ... and a few millennia later – Greek physicians, including the “father of medicine” himself, Hippocrates (460 BCE), were grappling ...

Hysteria has traversed a complex historical trajectory from ancient ... humors', due to a lack of orgasms. This concept of humorism dates to 500 BC – however, Hippocrates (460-370 BC) is credited with ...

Ancient medical practices are usually frowned upon by modern society. The history of medicine is tainted by bizarre ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman ...

At the Medical Science Centre of Vilnius University, researchers are unlocking hidden health secrets from ancient DNA, and the possibilities for modern medicine are vast. Associate Professor Dr ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...