Hospital, an institution that is built, staffed, and equipped for the diagnosis of disease; for the treatment, both medical and surgical, of the sick and the injured; and for their housing during this process. The modern hospital also often serves as a centre for investigation and for teaching. hospitalRiverside campus […]
History
Maintaining a comfortable state of health is a goal shared by much of the world’s population past and present, thus the history of health and medicine weaves a thread connecting us with our ancestors’ human experiences. Yet it’s easy to assume that studying it involves either celebrating the ‘eureka moments’ […]
Article Tools TIMES-TRIBUNE ARCHIVES Dr. Elsie Cole, retiring president of the Scranton District Dental Society, turns over the gavel to Dr. Frank B. Gardner, 1954 president, at the election and installation dinner on Dec. 14, 1953, at the Hotel Jermyn. From left: Gardner, Cole, Dr. Joseph Newman, Dr. John C. […]
Contents Birth of the Medici Dynasty The Descendants of Cosimo de’ Medici A New Medici Branch Comes to Power The Medici Dynasty in Decline The Medici family, also known as the House of Medici, first attained wealth and political power in Florence in the 13th century through its success in […]
Early medicine and folklore Unwritten history is not easy to interpret, and, although much may be learned from a study of the drawings, bony remains, and surgical tools of early humans, it is difficult to reconstruct their mental attitude toward the problems of disease and death. It seems probable that, […]
The history of medicine shows how societies have changed in their approach to illness and disease from ancient times to the present. Early medical traditions include those of Babylon, China, Egypt and India. Sushruta, from India, introduced the concepts of medical diagnosis and prognosis. The Hippocratic Oath was written in […]
Collections: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) – Digital Collections – National Library of Medicine Search Results « Previous | 1 – 10 of 70,840 | Next » Search Results Publication: Bethesda, MD : U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Health & Human Services, [2010] Subject(s): […]
The Story of the Creation of the Nation’s First Hospital Pennsylvania Hospital was founded in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin “to care for the sick-poor and insane who were wandering the streets of Philadelphia.” At the time, Philadelphia was the fastest growing city in the […]
One of these important fields was Islamic medicine, which saw medical practice begin to resemble our modern systems. Certainly, this period of the history of medicine was centuries ahead of Europe, still embedded in the Dark Ages. Central to Islamic medicine was belief in the Qur’an and Hadiths, which stated […]