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Prior intervention by physicians is mentioned in 50 of these cases, and one relates a confirmatory X-ray image by a physician. [ 16 ] Marietta T. Webb , who in 1911 became one of the first African Americans listed in the Christian Science Journal as a practitioner, became the only African American to have a healing testimony included in the ...
Similar proverbs with a medical theme appear in other Jewish literature. [4] For example, "Physician, physician, heal thine own limp!" (Imperial Aramaic: אסיא אסי חיגרתך) can be found in Genesis Rabbah 23:4 (300–500 CE). [5] [6] Such proverbs also appear in literary Classical texts from at least the 6th century BCE.
Sometimes this term is used synonymously with stichomancy (from στίχος stichos-' row, line, verse ') "divination by lines of verse in books taken at hazard", which was first recorded c. 1693 (Urquhart's Rabelais). Bibliomancy compares with rhapsodomancy (from rhapsode ' poem, song, ode ') "divination by reading a random passage from a poem".
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Meaning origin and notes References Bible beater, Bible basher: North America: Evangelicals of Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal denominations A dysphemism for evangelical Christians who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, particularly those from Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal denominations. [1] It is also a slang term for an ...
A New Concordance of the Bible (full title A New Concordance of the Bible: Thesaurus of the Language of the Bible, Hebrew and Aramaic, Roots, Words, Proper Names Phrases and Synonyms) by Avraham Even-Shoshan is a concordance of the Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible, first published in 1977. The source text used is that of the Koren edition of 1958.
The Canon of Medicine (c. 1000) - Described by Sir William Osler as a "medical bible" and "the most famous medical textbook ever written". [19] The Canon of Medicine introduced the concept of a syndrome as an aid to diagnosis, and it laid out an essential framework for a clinical trial. [20]
The term geriatrics comes from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology. Gonad – A gonad, sex gland, or reproductive gland [193] is a mixed gland that produces the gametes (sex cells) and sex hormones of an organism.