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.
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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 […]
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 […]
Avicenna: The Architect of Early Modern Medicine
. Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah ibn Sina—Avicenna to the West—was born in 980 CE near Bukhara, in the heart of the Persian world. He […]