Medicine in the Old Testament Hebrew
The ancient Hebrew medicine was influenced by Assyrian Babylonian culture, where the disease is God's punishment as a consequence of sin.
In culture and medicine is very important to the Jewish concept of purity and impurity cleaning correlates with good health, and dirt with the disease.
Jewish medicine is a medicine of a religious nature in which God is the only source of healing. The doctor-priest is the instrument chosen by God for the healing process.
There are numerous religious requirements with hygiene: washing hands, changing clothes, dietary restrictions, circumcision.
The leper, considered impure from the point the moral and spiritual, was removed from society and his clothes were burned.
You knew the use of various medicines, including willow (Salix alba) and was known the sexual transmission of certain diseases.
also interesting aspects of diet as the prohibition of consuming blood, fat and meat from certain animals (Leviticus 7, 23-26 "Do not eat any fat of ox or sheep or goat's blood ... not eating at all, nor fowl or domestic animals eat blood ... Anyone of any kind, will be cut off from his people "), fish without fins or scales (molluscs were recognized as potential bearers food-borne infections).
addition, there were laws intended to protect wells from various forms of pollution including human waste.
widespread was the practice of bloodletting. Circumcision, initially a health measure, later became a sign of the covenant between God and Abraham (Genesis 17, 10-14).
A significant passage from Exodus 15, 26: "If you listen to the voice of the Lord .... Do not suffer the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you."
It 'important to remember that Moses had established strict rules (diet, sanitation, purification, quarantine) to protect the people during the exodus.
A very curious is the medical word that in Hebrew is Rofe. Raph This word derives from the verb which means to heal, even the name of the angel Raphael healer has the same origin and means "God heals."
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
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reconstruction of the faces of Mycenaean warriors
are very frequent surveys paleopathological of rickets, malaria, malnutrition and fractures in the tombs of various archaeological sites of ancient Greece.
different findings were found in the graves of Circle B at Mycenae outside the fort: it is the remains of members of royal families.
There is no bone lesions secondary to wear or poor nutrition, presence of teeth healthy and strong.
In the dead there is a finding of gallstones. In one subject there are traces of stab wounds to the head (the fight) and arthritis in his left shoulder (for the noble tradition of supporting the left arm with a heavy shield.
Inside the museum at Mycenae, are visible reconstructions of the faces of the Mycenaean heroes here are some pictures.
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The three Fates and the life of man
But who determines the length of human life? This task falls to the three Fates, also known as the Fates or Kere. Clotho, the spinner, enveloped by the time the thread of life. Lachesis, the one who measured the length of the wire determine the length of life. Atropos (from the verb-α τρεπω, the one that can not be avoided) was the smallest but the most terrible was the one that cuts the thread of life. Zeus himself, which could influence the function of the first two, could not interfere with the activity of Atropos.
But who determines the length of human life? This task falls to the three Fates, also known as the Fates or Kere. Clotho, the spinner, enveloped by the time the thread of life. Lachesis, the one who measured the length of the wire determine the length of life. Atropos (from the verb-α τρεπω, the one that can not be avoided) was the smallest but the most terrible was the one that cuts the thread of life. Zeus himself, which could influence the function of the first two, could not interfere with the activity of Atropos.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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The first hematologist antiquity: Melampus. The wound of Philoctetes
also the first hematologist to the story was greek.
His name Melampus (means "walk by blacks," as he walked without shoes).
was a pastor, doctor and seer of Argos. He lived around 1400 BC
Curò Iphicles, who complained of fatigue and could not bear children. The
administered dissolved in water, the rust scraped by a knife: the treatment lasted for 10 days and the patient recovered. This is probably the first example of treatment of iron deficiency anemia.
But besides being a good hematologist, Melampus also knew the medicinal properties of herbs and the transition Principality of drug in milk. He recovered from the madness of the daughters of the king of Argos Preto, feeding them goat's milk fed black hellebore.
Monday, May 3, 2010
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Philoctetes, a famous archer of Thessaly and friend of Heracles, took part in the Achaean expedition against Troy. Bitten by a snake, reports a foot injury that a wound becomes chronic, painful and malodorous (Iliad II, 716-725).
is abandoned by his comrades on the island of Lemnos, but without his arrows, Troy is not conquered. It then led in the camp and healed by Achaean Machaon.
Sophocles in Philoctetes, performs an accurate description of the disease: it speaks of foot ulcer (vv 7, 291, 690, 697, 824), painful (vv 9, 11), smelly (vv 520, 876, 890, 891 , 1032), moaning Blood material (vv 695, 782-784).
Among the diagnostic hypotheses: the snake bite, probably not poisonous, causing a wound that is infected.
In the work of Baldacci, you can see the hero suffering and painful spasm that grips his left foot.
Reference: Vincenzo
Baldacci (Cesena, 1802-13), Philoctetes
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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Two other cases of goiter
Two other cases of goiter, or swelling at the base of the neck secondary to disease thyroid are represented in the work of Artemisia Gentileschi entitled "Judith and Holofernes" and "Resurrection of Christ by Piero della Francesca.
In the first work you can see the swelling of the neck of Judith's just beheaded Holofernes. In the work of Piero, however, can be seen among the soldiers who fell asleep the author's self portrait, the second from the left. Piero appears with the head hyperextended it is clear a thyroid node.
References:
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), Judith and Holofernes
Piero della Francesca, Resurrection of Christ
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