 Circa 400 BC, Portrait of Hippocrates (c 460 - 377 BC). Greek
physician. Known as the 'father of medicine', he developed the belief
that an imbalance of the four fluids (or humours) of the body (blood,
phlegm, yellow & black bile) are the primary causes of disease.
(Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images) - artwork dated 1754 |
Socrates, You Don't Look So Good Flu isn't new. More than 2,000 years ago (412 B.C.E.), the Greek physician Hippocrates, known as the father of modern medicine, described a respiratory illness we now know as influenza, or flu. He was describing "the cough of Perinthus" in a text known as Epidemics. By the 1170s, outbreaks of influenza-like illnesses began appearing in historical accounts. The keeping of pigs and poultry may have fueled the outbreaks, as the continually mutating influenza virus jumped to humans after circulating among these domestic animals. Jessica Snyder Sachs |
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Oxygen Therapy Program
Oxygen therapy is quickly becoming one of the most controversial, yet
effective forms of alternative medicine to enter the medical spotlight
as the turn of the millennium approaches. It has many potential uses, ranging
from a means of headache relief to a possible cure for AIDS and cancer,
and the treatments seem simple and inexpensive.
