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S G Marketos

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PubMed1994

Hippocratic medicine and nephrology.

The history of nephrology is a part of culture in general and should be treated not as a hobby or an isolated specialty of medical science, but as closely connected with medical education and everyday clinical practice. In the age of the apotheosis of renal biotechnology, medicine more than ever needs to combine Hippocratic messages with renal technologic achievements, in order both to restore quality of life in patients with renal disease and to bring harmony and balance to individuals impaired in body and soul. Indeed, Hippocratic medicine lies at the root of the development of clinical nephrology. Hippocratic writings have not lost their nephrologic interest, despite the enormous recent advances in renal technology. Today's practising nephrologist can still learn not only from Hippocratic clinical observations, but also from the prognostic thoughts, the ethical principles, the philosophic concepts and the humane messages of the 'father of clinical nephrology'.

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PubMed1982

Bronchial asthma in the medical literature of Greek antiquity.

The actual term asthma is a Greek word that is derived from the verb aazein, meaning to exhale with open mouth, to pant. The expression asthma appeared for the first time in the Iliad, with the meaning of a short-drawn breath, but the earliest text where the word is found as a medical term is the Corpus Hippocraticum. However it is difficult to determine whether in referring to "asthma," Hippocrates and his school (460-360 B.C.) meant an autonomous clinical entity or simply a symptom. The best clinical description of asthma in later antiquity is offered by the master clinician, Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1st century A.D.). The numerous mentions of "asthma" in the extensive writings of Galen (130-200 A.D.) appear to be in general agreement with the Hippocratic texts and to some extent with the statements of Aretaeus.

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PubMed1981

Bacteriuria and survival in old age.

We studied the effect of asymptomatic bacteriuria on survival in 342 healthy residents of a home for the aged. At entry into the study 76 subjects (22 per cent) had bacteriuria on two consecutive urine cultures. There were no differences in age distribution, blood pressure, hematocrit, smoking habits, cholesterol, or myocardial changes between bacteriuric and nonbacteriuric subjects. Median survival was 53 and 75 months in nonbacteriuric men and women 70 to 79 years old, and 45 months in all nonbacteriuric subjects over 79; median survival of bacteriuric men and women aged 70 to 79 was 33 and 34 months, and that of those older was 31 and 29.5 months; the shorter survival of bacteriuric subjects was significant (P less than 0.003). These differences in mortality among subjects living under identical conditions and with equal prevalence of risk factors indicate that bacteriuria in old age is associated with a reduction in survival of 30 to 50 per cent.

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