Galen : (129-c.199 BC), Greek physician, founded Europe’s experimental physiology.
... Acts evinces their authors' doctorship, for he has shown these terms to be prevalent in most writers of antiquity and demonstrated on the testimony of Galen, the greatest ancient authority on medicine, that the words in question are seen in Galen as a result of his avowedly avoiding medical jargon. Phillips is on better ground in pointing to some fifty words that have nothing to do with medicine ...
... of anatomy in Padua, told his students: “Try the experiment and find out whether what I have said agrees with the thing itself.” (Formerly, anatomy lessons consisted mainly in reading passages from Galen as comments by dissections.) William Harvey (1578-1657), who discovered the circulation of the blood, wrote: “I do not profess to learn and teach anatomy from the axioms of the philosophers, but [directly]... medical knowledge and teaching were in a state of flux. New anatomical and physiological discoveries such as the circulation of the blood had undermined confidence in the tradition of Aristotle and Galen without necessarily replacing it with anything more coherent or effective. … Medicine remained in a pre-scientific state …” 40 Unable to invent a method to study living organism scientifically... becomes part of mathematics, the parts of the muscles cannot be distinctly designated nor can their movement be successfully studied.” 42 The efforts by the biologists to go beyond Aristotle and Galen, the two medieval authorities on all things biological, were admirable. Most of their names have been forgotten, although they deserve better. Niels Steno, Reinier de Graaf, Jan Swammerdam, Johannes ...
... the same argument would make doctors of almost all the writers of antiquity, and that the whole thesis is in any case ill-founded, since Galen himself claimed not to use a medical jargon but to write in the common parlance of ordinary men." 5 With the mention of Galen we have the testimony of the greatest medical authority in ancient times proving the alleged medical terms to be no specialist distinguishing ...
... founded or systematized – and we have not even mentioned meteorology – may perplex the reader. This, however, was an axis time for what are now called the biological sciences. There had been Aristotle, Galen, Descartes and La Mettrie, Paracelsus, Vesalius in Padua and the naturalists connected in one way or another with the University of Leiden, that practically forgotten but important former centre of ...
... life may be long in the land." To call an eminent novelist for the purpose is after all appropriate. You could give a long address on the romance of medicine beginning with Dhanvantari, Charaka and Galen 139 and ending with Nirod Talukdar and Dr. Ramchandra. Romen has drawn a design for Jyoti's wrapper (of her stories which we have made into a book). How do you like it? I find it rather a nicish ...
... medicine; it originated in India. Medicine, mathematical notation and astrology all went from India to Arabia, and from there they travelled to Greece. There three humours of which Hippocrates and Galen speak are an Indian idea. Disciple : At Calcutta and other places they are trying to start Ayurvedic schools. I think it is good. It will be a combination of Eastern and Western methods, especially ...
... unnatural for him. Ayurveda was the first system of medicine. It was from India that this science went to Greece and then to Arabia. Indian physicians used to go to Arabia. What Hippocrates and Galen speak of as the three humours is an Indian idea. India also discovered the use of the zero with mathematical notations. Astrology too went from India to Arabia. NIRODBARAN: At Calcutta, people are ...
... the land!' But then to call in an eminent litterateur like you is after all appropriate. You can furnish them with a long address on the romance of medicine beginning with Dhanwantari, Charaka and Galen and ending with Nirod Taluqdar or Dr. Ramchandra." When his correspondence in our Ashram increased to unconscionable proportions and he had to deal with them all by himself night after night ...
... worn by Sri Aurobindo on Darshan days. 137. Maybe an allusion to the invasion of Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia) by Italy in October 1935. 138. Tabula rasa: an erased tablet in latin. 139. Galen: a Greek physician of the 2nd century CE. 140. An English nursery rhyme: little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating his Christmas pie He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum ...
... their Page 475 physical consciousness has been contaminated by the mental aberrations of the civilised? 393) We ought to use the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates & their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel. 394) Medical Science is well-meaning and its practitioners often ...
... Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399 394—We ought to use the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates and their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel. 395—Medical Science is well-meaning and its practitioners often ...
... ( Regarding the latest Aphorisms and the English translation of Mother's comments. ) 393—We ought to use the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates and their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel. 399—Man was once naturally healthy and could revert to that primal ...
... the land!' But then to call in an eminent litterateur like you is after all appropriate. You can furnish them with a long address on the romance of medicine beginning with Dhanwantari, Charaka and Galen and ending with Nirod Talukdar or Dr. Ramchandra. 6 (4) Sri Aurobindo's taste of Maharatta cookery: On learning that the Maharaja of Dewas had invited DK to dinner Sri Aurobindo wrote to ...
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