middle eastern history Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/category/middle-eastern-history/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 02:27:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 The Pharmacopoeia Londinensis https://bshm.org.uk/the-pharmacopoeia-londinensis/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-pharmacopoeia-londinensis/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2018 02:08:05 +0000 http://bshm.org.uk/?p=2927 The Pharmacopoeia Londinensis was originally published in Latin by the Royal College of Physicians in 1618 and translated into English by Nicholas Culpepper in the middle of the seventeenth century. To celebrate its 400th anniversary an illustrated version of the book is to be published later this year. I am delighted to be one of […]

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]]> https://bshm.org.uk/the-pharmacopoeia-londinensis/feed/ 0 Neurology and Psychiatry in Babylon https://bshm.org.uk/neurology-psychiatry-babylon/ https://bshm.org.uk/neurology-psychiatry-babylon/#respond Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:42:24 +0000 http://bshm.org.uk/?p=1703 How rapidly does medical knowledge advance?  Very quickly if you read modern newspapers, but rather slowly if you study history.  Nowhere is this more true than in the fields of neurology and psychiatry. It was believed that studies of common disorders of the nervous system began with Greco-Roman Medicine, for example, epilepsy, “The sacred disease” […]

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