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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. Oscar Wilde Medicine
Chiron (From The Proceedings of the 10th Annual HISTORY OF MEDICINE DAYS The Proceedings of the 10th Annual March 23rd and 24th, 2001, FACULTY OF MEDICINE THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY) When the plague broke out at Ephesos and there was no stopping it, the Ephesians sent a delegation to Apollonios asking him to heal them. Accordingly, he did not hesitate, but said, "Let's go," and there he was, miraculously, in Ephesos. Calling together the people of Ephesos, he said, "Be brave; today I will stop the plague." Then he led them all to the theater where the statue of the God-Who-Averts-Evil had been set up. In the theater there was what seemed to be an old man begging, his eyes closed, apparently blind. He had a bag and a piece of bread. His clothes were ragged and his appearance was squalid. Apollonios gathered the Ephesians around him and said, "Collect as many stones as you can and throw them at this enemy of the Gods."The Ephesians were amazed at what he said and appalled at the idea of killing a stranger so obviously pitiful, for he was beseeching them to have mercy on him. But Apollonios urged them on to attack him and not let him escape. When some of the Ephesians began to pitch stones at him, the beggar who had his eyes closed as if blind suddenly opened them and they were filled with fire. At that point the Ephesians realized he was a demon and proceeded to stone him so that their missiles became a great pile over him. After a little while Apollonios told them to remove the stones and to see the wild animal they had killed. When they uncovered the man they thought they had thrown their stones at, they found he had disappeared, and in his place was a hound who looked like a hunting dog but was as big as the largest lion. He lay there in front of them, crushed by the stones, foaming at the corners of his mouth as mad dogs do..... Philostratos, Life of Apollonios of Tyana, c. 190 CE from Paul Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts of Personal Religion, c. 430 BC - 300 AD Censored Images
This image is usually described as a scene of slaves in a cooper mine, but in a TIME-LIFE series in the book Matter (Ralph E. Lapp) in 1965 the author says that it shows gods at work from a ceramic work from the 6th century BC! On the right Hermes in the center Amphitrite (looks to me not like a woman) and on the left Poseidon with some other young god. I was impressed because I could not imagine that gods work so hard and especially when the Greeks are criticized as lazy all the work done by slaves. The right image is from another source (some differences, but not all , are due to the scanner). Do you see why the TIME-LIFE image (left) is censored (at least the Greek edition which I have)? Maybe the Penis of “Hermes” was too large! I do not know from where the author had the information about who these “gods” are, which I think is not correct, but I was shocked by this manipulation more than all US-Americans combined together with the exhibit of a breast of J. Jackson in some sport event!
The Greek Text for the left figure which describes which gods are shown. In man the scrotum is clearly asymmetrical, the right testicle usually being placed higher than its opposite number. Chang et al (1960) found that the right testis was the higher in 62.1% of 486 men, and the left testis higher in 27.4%, the two being equal in height in the remaining 10.5%. Antliff and Shampo (1959) found an essentially similar result in 386 men, the right testis being higher in 65.1% and the left higher in 21.9%. The two sets of authors differ in their findings as to the effect of handedness, Chang et al claiming that the relationship is reversed in left-handers, whilst Antliff and Shampo found no such reversal. There is also evidence that in the bull the right testis tends to be the higher of the two. From 187 sculptures, the majority of which are from ancient Greece, the data being pooled from two separate studies. In the single largest group the right testicle is placed higher (and thus correctly), but simultaneously the left testicle is made larger, the reverse of the correct anatomical situation. Winckelmann was partly correct when he observed of Greek sculpture that, “Even the private parts have their appropriate beauty. The left testicle is always the larger, as it is in nature; so likewise it has been observed that the sight of the left eye is keener than the right”, I C McManus Right-left and the scrotum in Greek sculpture The first Greek doctor to work in Rome, Archagathus of Sparta (Αρχάγανθος), was known as ‘the butcher’ because of his fondness for surgery and cautery (Pliny NH 29.13). The activities of him and his kind prompted Cato to think that sending healers to Rome was one way in which the Greeks’ sought revenge on their captors (Plutarch Cato 23). Etymology, Words
Roughly 60% of all English words and 90% of technical and scientific terms are derived from ancient Greek and Latin.
The word right means correct but also a direction. In modern Greek Dexios is a right person and dexia is the direction- In ancient Greek dexios Δεξιός means the well-educated Δεξιός: ὁ εὐπαίδευτος. καὶ Δεξιοί, οἱ εὐπαίδευτοι The planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, by William Herschel. a musician who had become both the director of the orchestra at the celebrated spa, Bath, and a first class astronomer. His fame was crowned by the discovery of a new planet, named Uranus after Urania, the muse of astronomy and geometry. An anagram is formed by taking the letters of a word, name or phrase and changing their order to come up with another word or set of words. All letters in the first name must be used in the second, an example LEMON and MELON. The phenomenon of anagrams was first discovered by the Greek Poet Lycophron (Λυκόφρων ) in 260 B.C. The study of anagrams has been called the Great Art because the word ANAGRAMS can be transposed to produce ARS MAGNA, i.e. Great Art. Jean Baptiste van Helmont, in Ortus Medicinae, published posthumously, concluded that plants derive their sustenance from water, demonstrated that acid digestion was neutralized by bile thus proving that physiological changes have chemical causes, coined the name 'gas' from the Greek chaos, distinguished gases as a class with liquids and solids, and showed that metals dissolved in the three main mineral acids could be recovered. , his son by was considered by the Arabic philosophers, who called him Aristutalis or Aristu, as a very important philosopher characterized by Ibn Rushd in Comm. Magnum in Arist. De anima III, as an exemplar quod natura invenit ad demonstrandum qultimam perfectionem humanam. During the military operations of the Athenians at Potidæa, when Socrates was not quite forty years old, he remained standing motionless in one place from early morning of one day until sunrise on the next, unaffected by a hard frost during the night. He had an inner "voice," or daemon, whose injunctions he followed. One night in the year 407 BC, )
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was shown, that the waters were sunk down, and the storms past...." "...as Diogenes writes; "the Indians call them Brackmans (Brahmans), in their own tongue; but in Greek they call them Gymnosophists, as much to say as naked philosophers..." The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that diamonds were the tears of ‘gods’ and splinters from falling stars.
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