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Today everything has to go quickly, including food – the sooner the better. Fast-food restaurants have sprung up like mushrooms. Every child knows what is in the fast-food questionable. Regardless of the concerns of doctors, nutritionists and WHO, the consumption of fast food dams. Processed food and fast-food industry we have consumed more health declined and in the future.

Also questionable and disturbing is the low consumption of fresh fruit, vegetables and salads. Many people do not even eat them all. There are so-called food deserts – areas where there are about, but impossible to buy fresh produce at all.

There is another factor to mention here, and we get to play the role of medicine. At the beginning of the 20th Century there were fewer than 2,000 known medical symptoms. Meanwhile, the medicine has made great progress. Pharmaceutical and modern diagnostic methods offer possibilities, no one dared to think 100 years. Read the rest of this entry »

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Under the term Old-Time Medicine most people probably think at once of Greek medicine, since that developed in what we have called ancient history, and is farthest away from us in date. As a matter of fact, however, much more is known about Greek medical writers than those of any other period except the last century or two. Our histories of medicine discuss Greek medicine at considerable length and practically all of the great makers of medicine… More >>

Old Time Makers Of Medicine – James J. Walsh, K.C.St.G.

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For nearly a century a conspicuous feature of the small riverside village of Morristown, in northern New York State, was the W.H. Comstock factory, better known as the home of the celebrated Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills. This business never grew to be more than a modest undertaking in modern industrial terms, and amid the congestion of any large city its few buildings straddling a branch railroad and its work force of several dozens at most would have been little n… More >>

History Of The Comstock Patent Medicine Business – Robert B. Shaw

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SAIL to the Pacific with some Ancient Mariner, and traverse day by day that silent sea until you reach a region never before furrowed by keel where a tiny island, a mere speck on the vast ocean, has just risen from the depths, a little coral reef capped with green, an atoll, a mimic earth, fringed with life, built up through countless ages by life on the remains of life that has passed away. And now, with wings of fancy, join Ianthe in the magic car of Shelley, pass… More >>

The Evolution Of Modern Medicine – William Osler

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The origin of the healing art in Ancient Rome is shrouded in uncertainty. The earliest practice of medicine was undoubtedly theurgic, and common to all primitive peoples. The offices of priest and of medicine-man were combined in one person, and magic was invoked to take the place of knowledge. There is much scope for the exercise of the imagination in attempting to follow the course of early man in his efforts to bring plants into medicinal use. That some of the in… More >>

Outlines Of Greek And Roman Medicine – James Sands Elliott, M.D.