Decoding the Baghdad Battery: Ancient Artifact or Medical Marvel?
Longstanding beliefs about ancient technological and medical knowledge were placed under scrutiny when Paul T. Keyser's published an article in the 1990s
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Longstanding beliefs about ancient technological and medical knowledge were placed under scrutiny when Paul T. Keyser's published an article in the 1990s
During the Roman Empire, the physician Scribonius Largus described in his work, Compositiones, the use of an electric fish to alleviate a headache. To remedy what we might refer to today as a migraine, Largus placed a live torpedo fish — delivering a strong direct electric current — over the scalp of his patient, to elicit a sudden, transient stupor with pain relief.
The authorship of the Hippocratic oath remains unclear with evidence pointing to neither Hippocrates nor his followers, but perhaps Pythagorean in nature.
New ways of getting inside patients’ heads | Technology Quarterly
From classical Rome to the 20th century, corpse medicine, or medicinal cannibalism, was rampant throughout all levels of European society. Consumption of