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The advancement of medical science was, and is, and will always be dependent on the progress of fundamental sciences like mathematics, physics and chemistry. It is true that pure science is not rapidly converted to applied science. That has always to depend on further technological advancement and on craftsmen's innovation. The role of physics in the evolution of some modern medical equipment - both diagnostic and therapeutic, is simply unique. A chemical pathology laboratory comprises, overall physics (i.e. laboratory machinery, pressures, radioactivity, voltage,
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Diagnostic Imaging/history , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Physics/historyABSTRACT
Genetics (Greek word--'genes' = born) is a science without an objective past. But the genre of genetics was always roaming in the corridors of human psyche since antiquity. The account of heritable deformities in human often appears in myths and legends. Ancient Hindu Caste system was based on the assumption that both desirable and undesirable traits are passed from generation to generation. In Babylonia 60 birth defects were listed on Clay tablets written around 5,000 year ago. The Jewish Talmud contains accurate description of the inheritance of haemophilia--a human genetic disorder. The Upanisads vedant--800--200 BC provides instructions for the choice of a wife emphasizing that no heritable illness should be present and that the family should show evidence of good character for several preceding generations. These examples indicate that heritable human traits played a significant role in social customs are presented in this article.
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Austria , Czechoslovakia , Genetics, Medical/history , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Human Genome Project/history , HumansABSTRACT
"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past".--Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965), Noble Literature Laureate, 1948. History and evolution of the concept of Medical Ethics is the classical example of this poetic expression. Virtually, every human society has some forces of myth to explain the origin of morality. Indian ethics was philosophical from its very birth. In the Vedas (1500 B.C.), ethics was an integral aspect of philosophical and religious speculation about the nature of reality. The Vedas says how people ought to live and is the oldest philosophical literature in the world. It was the first account of philosophical ethics in human history. The old Testament of (c. 200 B.C.) the Hebrew Bible (Greek--ta biblia--"the books") gives account of God giving the Ten Commandments--the oral and written Law engraved on tablets of Stone to Moses around 13th century B.C. on Mount Sinai (Arabic--Gebel Musa) the Mountain near the tip of the Sinai Peninsula in West Asia.
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Codes of Ethics/history , Ethics, Medical/history , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, AncientABSTRACT
The stethoscope represents the physician perhaps more than any other symbol, except the shaft of Aesculpaius of Kos Island, Greece (birthplace of Hippocrates) - the god of Temple medicine of the Greek antiquity. In early modern ear of the 19th century, it was spectacular product of developing synthetic chemical technology which was progressively used in its making. It was a remarkable addition to the clinico-diagnostic armamentarium of doctors. Laennec paved the way in 1819, and since then it has been a long march of continuous innovative development supplying for the demand of relevant auscultatory bedside tool to examine different medical conditions.
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Equipment Design , History, 17th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, Ancient , Stethoscopes/historyABSTRACT
Dentistry and Dental Surgery are practically synonymous. The trail of evolution of Dentistry from scratch in the antiquity to one of the most developed disciplines of modern medical sciences over the centuries is exciting, interesting and thoughtful. This short article will try to tell that tale.
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History of Dentistry , History, Ancient , History, Early Modern 1451-1600 , History, Medieval , History, Modern 1601-ABSTRACT
Art is an exercise of human skill - sometimes figments of imagination to express the natural world in various forms-literal and visual. Medicine and art interact in the doctor's life and work. The science and art of healing takes many forms; so does the expressive and evocative process known as art. The details are presented here.