Healing Arts: Medicine in History, Culture and the Arts

It may come as a surprise to students of Ancient Greece and its patently misogynistic customs and beliefs, that the most powerful symbol of the Hellenic civilization, the most influential and revered person in religious, domestic and even military matters, was a woman. Or rather, a series of women.
The Oracle at Delphi

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Legends and Symbols Series

Where did the well-known symbol for the medical profession actually come from?

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While Christie’s work includes a fair amount of violent murder methods, including stabbings, shootings, blunt force trauma, etc, she is perhaps best known for her use of poison. Nearly thirty novels see the hapless victims dispatched via poisons of many kinds, and even more include non-fatal poisons or sleeping draughts as part of the plot.
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Why does medicine use so many fifty-cent words? And where do they come from?
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Unnatural Death? Series
Did Vincent Van Gogh really commit suicide? Compelling evidence suggests otherwise...

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