Heroic medicine, also referred to as heroic depletion theory, was a therapeutic method advocating for rigorous treatment of bloodletting, purging, and...

Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, is an archaic and derogatory label originally used by 19th-century homeopaths to describe heroic medicine, the precursor...

towards exploration. Heroic Age of Medicine, c. 1780 – 1850, when aggressive medical techniques were used. See Heroic medicine. Heroic Age (literary theory)...

In the context of medicine, heroic measures refer to any courses of treatment or therapy aimed at saving or prolonging a person's life, despite the potential...

therapeutics. Alternative medicine had its beginnings in the early 19th century, when gentler practices in comparison to heroic medicine began to emerge. As...

Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. A wide array of practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting...

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its...

also known in Ayurvedic medicine, described in the Susruta Samhita. Bloodletting became a main technique of heroic medicine, a traumatic and destructive...

diseases. Theory of the four bodily humours (see also Four temperaments) Heroic medicine – a therapeutic method derived from the belief in bodily humour imbalances...

allegiance to drugs and medical intervention that were embodied in heroic medicine practice. To establish support, Bigelow wrote on how the outcomes among...

remedy for a variety of physical and mental ailments during the age of "heroic medicine". It was prescribed by doctors in America throughout the 18th century...

trends of his time, Pott did not agree with severe treatments and heroic medicine but rather preferred gentler forms. Percivall Pott's son-in-law, James...

all youth in the Christian religion. Rush was a leading proponent of heroic medicine. He firmly believed in such practices as bloodletting patients (a practice...

there were no standardized dosages for the drug so practitioners of heroic medicine would often deliver dosages that were too large, resulting in mercury...

system of medical practice. (1839). Volume 4 Eclectic medicine Ethnobotany Herbalism Heroic medicine Pharmacognosy Phytotherapy Popular Health Movement New...

had emerged from the practice of heroic medicine. All varieties of treatments and cures including scientific medicine, vitalism, herbalism, magnetism and...

pace. Readers learn in sometimes fulsome detail about the limits of “heroic medicine” — the delivery of treatments that had demonstrable effects. And they...

Heroic Roses, known in German as Heroische Rosen, is an oil on stained canvas expressionist painting by Swiss-German painter Paul Klee, from 1938. It is...

Sword and sorcery (S&S), or heroic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures...

used systemically, and paved the way for the antibiotic revolution in medicine. In bacteria, antibacterial sulfonamides act as competitive inhibitors...

when it claimed to be more scientific than the extremely dogmatic "heroic medicine" of the period, which frequently did more harm than good, whereas,...

medical establishment of the time, which practised what is now termed Heroic medicine. Samuel Cockburn was born into a family of shoemakers in Duns, Scottish...

Division. Littleton MR (2005). Doc: Heroic Stories of Medics, Corpsmen, and Surgeons in Combat. "Digital Military Medicine Collections of the U.S. Army Academy...

James. Greek Medicine From the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age. New York, NY, 1998. ISBN 0-415-92087-6 Ancient Greek Medicine in medicinenet.com Archived 2013-03-28...

was called heroic medicine as the patient required great strength to follow through with these treatments. This democratization of medicine fed into the...

overuse of any one solution to solve many different problems, especially in medicine. The word has acquired connotations of snake oil and quackery. A panacea...

Marathon". The New York Times (Well blog). Coghlan, Andy (10 October 2014). "A heroic family fight against paralysis". New Scientist. "2010 honorees: Alexandra...

Behemoth 12, no. 1 (2019): 2–13, 5. Gölz, Olmo "The Imaginary Field of the Heroic: On the Contention between Heroes, Martyrs, Victims and Villains in Collective...

also feature brutalist designs, including those at the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmaceutical University, the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and...

impossible to cure people or societies of their ills through treatment. In medicine, it was connected to the idea that many "cures" do more harm than good...