It’s a familiar scene: you sit down to study, but before long, your thoughts drift. You remember a patient you met, the rhythm of a […]
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Love as a Disease: Ancient Diagnoses in a Modern World
Once upon a time, love was not a metaphor. It was not a poetic exaggeration, nor a theme for films. It was a diagnosis. A disturbance of the soul, yes — but also of the body. Among the practitioners of Unani medicine, passionate, unrequited love was considered an affliction as real as fever or melancholy.
From Shrine to Science: The Early Trials of Hippocrates
A Meditales Historical Reflection He was not yet Hippocrates the Great—only Hippocrates, son of Heraclides, walking the rocky paths of Kos beneath a sky heavy […]
The Mirror Child
They first noticed it in the reflection. At six years old, Anaya would stand before the full-length mirror in her mother’s room, mimicking not her […]
The Man Who Couldn’t Forget
They say time heals all wounds. But for Aarav, time did something stranger—it preserved them. Every pain, every regret, every awkward pause at a party […]
The Anointed Hand: Scrofula and the Ritual of the Royal Touch
Between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries, a curious tradition flourished at the intersection of politics, religion, and medicine. In the courts of England and France, […]
The Fever Cure – A Mad Genius’s Gambit Against Syphilis
The air in Vienna’s psychiatric wards was thick with the scent of sweat and carbolic acid. Men and women—some raving, others eerily still—lined the halls […]
Fritz Haber, Clara Immerwahr, and the Medical Ethics of Nitrogen
The early 20th century witnessed an invisible revolution—one that unfolded not in hospital wards or battlefield clinics, but in a chemical laboratory in Karlsruhe. It […]
Study Links Gut Health to Cognitive Function and Mood
How Your Gut Health Affects Your Brain and Mood: A New Scientific Breakthrough Ever had a “gut feeling” about something? Well, it turns out there […]
WHO Unveils Global Health Strategy to Tackle Future Pandemics
WHO’s New Global Health Strategy: Preparing for the Next Pandemic With the world still recovering from the impacts of COVID-19, it’s no wonder […]