History of Infectious Diseases
History of Infectious Diseases
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2024
Oğuz Usta and others
One of the indispensable abilities of a young medieval doctor was the capability to read urine colour, given that urine was regarded as a divine fluid and considered to be a window to the human body. The observation of urine enabled the detection of bodily changes, and it served as the first laboratory test for thousands of years. Similarly, the practice of uroscopy, (...) Read More
History of Infectious Diseases
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Önder Ergönül
Many people assumed that Asclepius was the God of Medicine and that her followers, the Asclepiads, were priests in temples and shrines called Asclepion. Asclepius and her daughter Hygeia who is known as goddess of hygiene are still the iconic names for modern medicine (Figure 1). However, as our knowledge deepened, it became possible to […] Read More
History of Infectious Diseases
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2023
Uğurgül Tunç
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, health and hygiene-themed exhibitions and museums became prevalent communication tools for public health throughout the world. However, the primary motivation behind their establishment as medical museums was the educational (...) Read More
History of Infectious Diseases
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2020
Fatih Artvinli
It would be apt to refer to the 20th century as a period of forgetting or not remembering in terms of the history of medicine in general and history of epidemics in particular. A historian of medicine, Frank Snowden, refers to this state as historical amnesia. With the sense of fear and danger that COVID-19 pandemic has instilled in people, the curiosity Read More
History of Infectious Diseases
/ VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2019
Uğurgül Tunç
The Crimean War (1853-1856) transformed Istanbul, then the Ottoman capital, into a medical hub where new ideas were tested and exchanged among doctors and nurses from all over Europe to control the spread of infectious diseases that claimed more lives than battle wounds. Although [...] Read More