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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.
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.
Over 90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 1300 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 2000 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy.
This site is a large archive of alchemy texts and images. The site contains dozens of transcriptions of 16th, 17th, and 18th century texts, more than a thousand images, an extensive collection of scholarly articles, and more. The site is maintained by Adam McLean, an independent scholar and well known authority and enthusiast for all things alchemical. The site also offers a mailing list, a CD-ROM version of the site, and several study courses.
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 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.
Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).
The ordering of the mathematicians and scientists below is approximately chronological. A separate index is provided which lists these people in alphabetical order.
This site is an online adaptation of the fourth edition of W. W. Rouse Ball's A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, published in 1908.
The site lists chronologically or alphabetically more than 80 mathematicians from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. These entries include some biographical information as well as descriptions of important contributions to the science. Many of the entries are quite long and filled with discussions of mathematical operations and theories, so the site may not be as useful to someone who is not well-versed in this field. However, the site is a great resource for tying together contemporaries, and for finding links between the lives and work of various mathematicians. Since the source of the information is old (1908), the text itself could be viewed as a primary source as well, showing the early twentieth-century attitude toward math and science. The site is entirely text except for a limited number of images that are entirely formulas and proofs.
An exhibit of rare scientific works from the Cudahy Collection of Jesuitica.
A catalog of Jesuits who worked in various scientific fields, with biographies of the members and highlights of their work. Includes a bibliography and an index of names.
Recognizing that modern achievements are no greater than the foundations upon which they were built, the IEEE Computer Society celebrates computing history in a number of ways. Our primary means of showcasing events in computing history is IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Since 1979, Annals has sought to raise important questions, highlight major events and influences that shaped the industry, and record the ideas and impressions of computer innovators.
In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ENIAC, the Computer Society of the IEEE put together this website. Most prominant here is a thorough chronology of computing technologies. The timeline can be loaded as a long series of web pages or as a downloadable, 68 page PDF document. The site also includes a history of the Computing Society within the IEEE. Members of this society have been key figures in the development of computer technology and software over the past 50 years. "Looking Back," a monthly calendar, features important achievements in the history of computing.
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.