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Parent topics
- History of Medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ancient Greece [r]: The loose collection of Greek-speaking city-states centered on the Aegean Sea which flourished from the end of the Mycenaean age to the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Galen [r]: (ca. 131 - ca. 201) Pergamum-born influential physician of antiquity, who produced a philosophically sophisticated synthesis of earlier medical theories of the body that was dominant until the seventeenth century. [e]
- Vesalius [r]: (1514 - 1564) Flemish physician who revolutionized the field of anatomy by laying the groundwork for a new, observation-based methodology, using dissections of human cadavers. [e]
- William Harvey [r]: (1579–1657) English physician who discovered the true nature of blood circulation and the function of the heart as a pump. [e]
Subtopics
- Hippocratic Oath [r]: An oath traditionally taken by physicians before practising medicine. [e]
- Epilepsy [r]: Brain disorder manifested as recurrent seizures or disturbed mental function, due to disturbances of brain electrical activity. [e]
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Winston Churchill [r]: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. [e]
- Scarborough Castle [r]: Ruined stone castle on the east coast of Yorkshire, England, begun in mid-twelfth century. [e]
- Émile Littré [r]: (1 February 1801 - 2 June 1881) French lexicographer and philosopher, best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française (Dictionary of the French Language), commonly called 'The Littré'. [e]
- Kormann House Hotel [r]: A once luxurious hotel, abandoned for decades, now slated to be the facade for a new 97 metre condominium [e]
- Acupuncture [r]: A form of alternative medicine that involves inserting and manipulating needles into 'acupuncture points' on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being. [e]