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Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), geologist and chemist, discovered vanadium (as vanadinite) in 1801. [52] Pío del Río Hortega (1882–1945), neuroscientist, discoverer of the microglia or Hortega cell. [53] Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (1928–1980), naturalist, leading figure in ornithology, ethology, ecology and science divulgation ...
Felix Mann (10 April 1931 – 2 October 2014) was a German-born acupuncturist. [1] He devised the system known as Scientific Acupuncture and was the founder and past president of the Medical Acupuncture Society (1959–1980).
A 2013 systematic review of the English-language case reports found that serious adverse events associated with acupuncture are rare, but that acupuncture is not without risk. [17] Between 2000 and 2011 the English-language literature from 25 countries and regions reported 294 adverse events. [ 17 ]
When tobacco first made it onto Spanish shores in the 17th century, maize wrappers were used to roll and then fine paper. The oldest folding/pocket knife have been found during the Iron Age (pre-Roman times)in Spain. The title is contested with folding knives found in Hallstatt culture region in Austria from around the same time. Foosball.
Japanese scientists have found strong anticancer activity in Brazilian traditional remedies. [2] In one study in 1997 published in The American Journal of Chinese Medicine , only 122 species existing in Brazil could be related to the Chinese species (or 14.35% of the samples), [ 3 ] which means the vast majority of species are not known to ...
Acupressure therapy was prevalent in India. After the spread of Buddhism to China, the acupressure therapy was also integrated into common medical practice in China and it came to be known as acupuncture. Scholars note these similarities because the major points of Indian acupressure and Chinese acupuncture are similar to each other. [4] [5]
A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
Neo-Moorish façade of the Palace of Manguinhos, site of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro.. The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Portuguese Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, also known as FIOCRUZ) is a scientific institution for research and development in biological sciences located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; it is considered one of the world's main public health research institutions.