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In medieval and early modern European medicine, the medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis and its congeners H. verbana, H. troctina, and H. orientalis) was used to remove blood from a patient as part of a process to balance the humors that, according to Galen, must be kept in balance for the human body to function properly.
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Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
used exclusively in veterinary medicine sig. signa, signetur: write (write on the label) s̄ sine: without (usually written with a bar on top of the s) sing. singulorum: of each SL, s.l. sub lingua: sublingually, under the tongue SOB shortness of breath sol. solutio: solution s.o.s., si op. sit si opus sit: if there is a need s.s., SS
The Dogmatic school of medicine (Dogmatics, or Dogmatici, Greek: Δογματικοί) was a school of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome. They were the oldest of the medical sects of antiquity. They were the oldest of the medical sects of antiquity.
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In the very early 18th century, Jakob Le Mort (1650–1718), [4] a professor of chemistry at Leiden University, prepared an elixir for asthma and called it "paregoric". [5] The word "paregoric" comes from the Greek word "paregoricon" which was originally applied to oratory – to speak, but, more accurately, talk over, soothe, [ 6 ] and finally ...
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