Hippocrates

This term was first used in 1910 by a Swiss psychologist, Paul Eugen Bleuler. As far back as the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece, physicians have had an idea of schizophrenia, they wrote about it as “madness” some saw it as a curse, some as a gift from heaven. It was treated with blood-letting, special diets and laxatives. As time went on in the middle ages…

daily life. Background Before dementia was even known by that term, in the 6th century BC, a Greek physician known as Pythagoras called it “senium by “imbecility, meaning decay of physical and mental capabilities”. During the 4th century BC, Hippocrates referred to it is as paranoia. And around these time periods, there was a lot…

Henrietta Lacks was an extremely interesting woman in history. She was an African American who thought she was ordinary like everyone else, but she could not have been more wrong. Little did she know her name would become an everlasting legacy that would advance medical science and propel it forward to help people and save lives. Her story began because she started feeling bad and went to a doctor at John’s Hopkins medical hospital complaining of a pain and bleeding in her vagina. A quote to…

Thus arose the idea of a female madness related to the lack of a normal sexual life: Plato, in Timaeus, argues that the uterus is sad and unfortunate when it does not join with the male and does not give rise to a new birth, and Aristotle and Hippocrates were of the same opinion (Women and Hysteria In the history of Mental Health…

Early medicine includes those of the Babylon, Chine, Egypt and India. Greeks introduced medicine diagnosis, prognosis and advanced medicine ethics. During the time of the renaissance anatomy improved and the microscope was invented. Germ theory of diseases lead to many cures for many infectious diseases. Advanced research centers opened in the early 20th century. By the mid-20th century new antibiotics were developed. Medicine was composed because of long infectious diseases. Edward Jenner…

of beneficence because in doing so, the physician does not help or demonstrate kindness toward the unborn child. It also contradicts nonmaleficence for the child because it harms the child, it ends the new life. Physicians swear by the oath of Hippocrates pledging to do no harm to all their patients. Some could argue that abortion does not violate the ethical principle of nonmaleficence for the mother if her health is at stake; however, the lives of the child and mother are both invaluable and…

writers as it required patients to give complete control to their physicians. Major developments in mental illness treatments have occurred in the past centuries, improving the quality of care patients receive. Around 400 B.C.E., the physician Hippocrates began to treat mental illnesses…

A famous Greek philosopher by the name of Hippocrates once said: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”. Reading this statement at first, I would assume that this means that food should be taken in place of medicine. This food that you are consuming should be considered your medicine. I can relate this to my personal life because growing up as a child, my parents would often say things like eat more pumpkin to improve your vision or eat eggs so you’ll have a healthy brain. I did not…

I held her hand as she mumbled the discomfort, her voice barely a whisper. The muscles in her neck straining further with each muttered word. Blemishes marred her arms and neck. Lying there with her eyes closed, torpid and blanched of all color, she seemed well beyond the reach of my limited abilities. Her name was Jones and she was diagnosed with cancer. With a basket full of knitted hats within sight, I picked out the brightest and coziest one and helped her into it. A smile appeared on her…

NSG3001-01-Introduction to the Profession of Nursing Scholarly Paper #1 Dr. Elizabeth Fezio Scholarly Paper #1 25 April 2016 There are many challenges that are associated with Schizophrenia and how to properly care for a patient as a nurse. Hippocrates believed that those with mental illnesses had disturbances in their physiology, which caused his belief that these individuals were possessed by demons (Malburne, 2010, para. 1). Unfamiliarity with mental illnesses brought about the…