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This is a fun, well designed site aimed at younger browsers. The site offers a slew of cursory information on dieases, anatomy, hospitals, public health, from the ancient to modern world.
This is a fun, well designed site aimed at younger browsers. The site offers a slew of cursory information on dieases, anatomy, hospitals, public health, from the ancient to modern world.
ca. 2700 B.C. - Shen Nung originates acupuncture
ca. 1700 B.C. - Edwin Smith surgical papyrus written. First written record about the nervous system
ca. 500 B.C. - Alcmaion of Crotona dissects sensory nerves
ca. 500 B.C. - Alcmaion of Crotona describes the optic nerve
This is a lengthy chronology of the history of the neurosciences. Though the entries are brief, there are hundreds covering a 6,000 year period. Some of the entries include links to outside sites with greater details about doctors, instruments and advances. The site is most useful for putting advances in neuroscientific research into perspective. The site also includes a brief bibliography of works in the history of neuroscience and a few links to more detailed sites.
Although the Greeks created rational medicine, their work was not always or even fully scientific in the modern sense of the term. Like other Greek pioneers of science, the doctors were prone to think that much more could be discovered by mere reflection and argument than by practice and experiment. For in their time there was not yet a distinction between philosophy and science, including medicine. Hippocrates was the first to separate medicine from philosophy and disprove the idea that disease was a punishment for sin. Much of the traditional treatment for injuries and ailments practiced by the Greeks stemmed from folk medicine, a characteristic shared by the Greeks with other societies to this day.
Antiqua Medicina is an exhibit created by the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center. This electronic display was generated from materials assembled for a print exhibit of the same name created in fall 1996. The exhibit is broken into 18 'rooms' that trace the history of medicine from Homer to Vasalius. Subjects including Hippocrates, Galen, military medicine and sanitation are covered; the essays provide an interesting introduction to the history of medicine. Scholars may also find some of the many images to be useful.
The Disability History Project is a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim our history and determine how we want to define ourselves and our struggles. People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world. Please email us about anything that you would like to see become part of the Disability Social History Project, including your disabled heroes, important events in disability history, and resources.
The Disability Social History Project has recorded a number of biographies of famous people with disabilities and a timeline tracing developments in social views of disabilities. The biographies contain a number of off-site links for each entry. Bibliographies organized by topic and several exhibits are also provided, as are links to related sites and projects. Great educational tool.
Welcome to the Asclepion, a World Wide Web page devoted to the study of ancient medicine. This page was designed to be an internet source that presents the study of ancient medicine in a manner that is both accessible and useful to the general public and to students in the history of medicine courses at Indiana University Bloomington. Please feel free to browse and send comments or ask questions.
This page was designed to be an internet source that presents the study of ancient medicine in a manner that is both accessible and useful to the general public and to students enrolled in the history course "Ancient Medicine" (History C380/580), taught by Professor Nancy Demand at Indiana University Bloomington. Essays on medicine in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece are particularly useful and some scholars may find the images of ancient medical instruments to be interesting. Designed for undergraduates, the site is not particularly expansive.
This is a brief "SYNOPSIS" of the History of Islamic Medicine. We are in the process of putting an in depth study of the "History of Islamic Medicine" on this page which will include biographies of some of the most prominent Islamic Physicians in history. Please keep a look out for this in the future. In the interim if you are interested email to:"hnagamia@pol.net
Part of the International Institute of Islamic Medicine, this page provides an introductory account of the development of medical practices in the Islamic world.
The Time and Frequency Division, part of NIST's Physics Laboratory, maintains the standard for frequency and time interval for the United States, provides official time to the United States, and carries out a broad program of research and service activities in time and frequency metrology.
This site provides links to a few time and calendar exhibits and hosts two exhibits itself. These hosted exhibits, "A Walk Through Time," and "NIST's work measuring time & frequency" are interesting but not particularly deep. The Time and Frequency exhibit provides information about early radio history in the United States as well as information about clock synchronization, the atomic clock and the Global Positioning System. The Walk Through Time exhibit provides a brief synopsis of six periods in history during which the measurement of time evolved from calendars, to sun dials, to mechanical clocks, to internet time synchronization.
In classical Greece and Rome, only alcohol, the oldest documented compound of abuse, poses a significant problem. Opium is widely employed only as a medicine; great caution is advised in its use, it is seldom used alone, and the phenomena of dependence and abuse are not recorded. While cannabis use is widespread in Asia Minor and Assyria, there appears to be little use of cannabis in Greek and Roman cultures.
The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres was published under the direction of Diderot, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Contributors included the most prominent philosophes: Voltaire, Rousseau, d’Alembert, Marmontel, d’Holbach and Turgot, to name only a few. These great minds (and some lesser ones) collaborated in the goal of assembling and disseminating in clear, accessible prose the fruits of accumulated knowledge and learning. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Encyclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate Enlightened ideas.
These exhibits trace evolutionary thought as it has developed over time, pausing to ponder the contributions of scientists and thinkers including Aristotle, Darwin, Wallace, and many others.
This website includes a number of useful biographies of key thinkers in the development of evolutionary theory. It also includes a few links to full-text on-line works by Charles Darwin. Exhibits on early dinosaur discoveries and systematics are interesting if not illuminating. Newcomers to this subject will find the biographies useful. Experts on evolution, however, will find other sites on evolution to be more rewarding.