If you had lived in ancient times and if you got headaches often, you would probably have been treated by having a hole drilled in your head!, known as trepanning. Well, Trepanning is basically boring, or cutting, or making holes ...Read more
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The Babylonians were considered very clever at diagnosing illness? They believed that evil spirits that entered the body caused illness, but they observed the symptoms in great details.
Harvey was an English physician who was the first to describe accurately how blood was pumped around the body by the heart. Most people of the day believed that food was converted into blood by the liver, and then, was ...Read more
He was a surgeon and teacher of Ayurveda. He practiced medicine in Kashi and identified the treatment and origin of several diseases. he is known as the ‘father of Indian surgery’, and is generally believed to have lived around 600 ...Read more
Bacteria are one-celled organisms that you can see only through a microscope. Bacteria are all around us, but the first person to actually see bacteria was Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch draper who made microscopes as a hobby. In 1674, ...Read more
The ancient Chinese discovered a way out to undergo and surgery without any pain they called this technique acupuncture, in which very fine needles are inserted into the body at specific points to block pain. Acupuncture is also used to ...Read more
There are different theories about the origin of the name, ‘caesarian section’. One theory is that the operation was named after Julius Caesar because he was taken from his mother’s abdomen after it was cut open. Another theory is that ...Read more
Hippocrates a Greek Physician, born in 460B.C. on the island of Cos, Greece. He was regarded as the greatest physician of his time. He based his medical practice on observation and on the study of the human body. Hippocrates believed ...Read more
A caesarian section is an operation to take a baby out of its mother’s body if the mother cannot have her baby naturally. The pregnant mother’s abdomen is cut open, and the baby is lifted out. The first person to ...Read more
Ibn Sina or Avicenna one of the most influential of all Islamic philosopher-scientists. in the west, he is also known as the ‘Prince of Physicians’ for his famous medical text’al-Qanun’. To his work on medicine, he later added religious tracts, ...Read more