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In this paper the geological, idrographical, climatical, and, above all, social and cultural conditions, favouring the atavic presence of malary in Basilicata (Lucania) -in the late 19th century the death-rate was three times the national average - are shortly surveyed. From these remarks we tried to outline the main steps of the struggle against malary in the first half of the 20th century, when land reclaimers, doctors, hospital attendants, hydraulic engineers, workmen, and farmers joined their efforts to eradicate the plague.
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Communicable Disease Control/history , Drainage, Sanitary/history , Geology/history , Malaria/history , Topography, Medical/history , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , ItalyABSTRACT
Ancient Egyptian pharmacological science is high part of the Egyptian medicine, as evidenced by the so-called pharmacological papyrus Ebers, which contains prescriptions with different kinds of components of vegetable, mineral and animal origin. These data suggest that Egyptian pharmacopeia had an exceptional complexity in the whole of ancient medicine. Egyptian medical knowledge influenced Mediterranean civilizations, as evidenced not only by the Greek translations of names of components but also by the Egyptian and Egyptian-like prescriptions found in the Corpus Hippocraticum.
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Materia Medica/history , Egypt, Ancient , History, Ancient , Humans , Pharmacopoeias as Topic/historyABSTRACT
Coverage of the concept of mania in late archaic Greek culture displays a clear difference between its use in medical and philosophical works. Medical literature uses the terms [Greek] and [Greek] to describe mania, with the condition seen largely associated with physical illness. Specific treatment for this attered psychic state is not advanced. The philosophical view sees mania as a divine folly and thus possessing positive as well as negative aspects. Plate identifies four types of mania and treatment is closely associated with the divinity seen as responsible for that particular type. The radical rationalism found in the medical literature is a counterpoint to moderation as shown by Plato with his interest on regulations of society.
