Human body – history of medicine
Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest known medical texts about the human body. From Egypt, about 1550 BC How does the human body work? Doctors have been trying to figure [...]
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Medicine and doctors in the Roman Empire
Roman medicine: Galen used surgical instruments like these What do we mean by Roman medicine? Roman medicine is really West Asian and African medicine. That's because most of the great [...]
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Medieval Islamic medicine
Islamic medicine: From an Ottoman manuscript, two doctors telling the pharmacist how to make different medicines Writing medical encyclopedias Doctors made big scientific advances in medicine during the Islamic empire. The [...]
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ibn al-Nafis – Discoveries of Islamic scientists
Illustration in Ibn al-Nafis Who was ibn al Nafis? Ibn al Nafis was born in Syria in the early 1200s AD, just as the power of the Seljuks was collapsing. He studied [...]
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How do animals breathe? Respiration, Evolution, Biology
Fish gills The first cells, which evolved about 3.8 billion years ago, needed carbon dioxide to live and not oxygen. They needed the carbon dioxide to help them break down [...]
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Lungs project – Using your lungs to float – Biology and Evolution
Caribbean woman swimming with two children: lungs project Your lungs as swim bladders Your own lungs still can act a little like swim bladders. Here's a lungs project: When you [...]
