Biology
- Panacea
Term: panaceaLiterally meaning : ?cure all? or ?all healing? Origin Anc Greek????????/panacea(=panacea)> ?[á?/pan(=all) + /á???/acos (= therapy) Coined/HistoryPanacea Helping the Sick. by the Veronese physician J. Gazola (1716) In...
- Empathy
Term: empathyOrigin: Anc Greek ?? /en(=in)+ ?????/pathos (=passion, sorrow, strong emotion) literally meaning ?feeling in?. CoinedHe was Scottish Philosopher, Economist and Historian David Hume (1711-1776 who first mentioned that ?sympathy?, or...
- Therapy
Term: therapy Literally meaning: "servicing" Origin: Anc Greek ????????/therapeia(=healing, attend, do service) >?????/threpho(=nurse, feed, nourishes) Definition: The medical treatment of disease Derivatives : Psychotherapy, chemotherapy,...
- Morphine
Term: morphineOrigin An Greek???????/morphine > M??????/Morpheus (=the son of Sleep, and the god of dreams). Coined/History Morpheus shaped or formed the dreams which appeared to the sleeper. (Ov. Met. xi. 635.). Morpheus brings...
- Week Four
A Drug For Everything? It seems like that is the way that we are headed. Clearly, there's an alarming trend toward medicalizing everything, even personality, and then making nearly every aspect of the human condition "treatable". Looked at from this...
Biology
hypnotherapy
Term: hypnotherapy
Literally meaning: ?therapy via sleeping?
Origin: Anc Greek
õ???? /hypnos(=sleep)
????????/therapeia(=healing, attend, do service)
>?????/threpho(=nurse, feed, nourishes)
Coined/History
The best source of reference to hypnosis came from ancient Egypt (3rd cen). The Demotic Magical Papyrus which was discovered in the 19th cen in Thebes gives information about preparation of a lamp in order to be used in a ritual.
In the eighteen cen the Austrian phycisian Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1815) claimed that he could heal people without conventionasl medicine via gis megnetic force which could regulate the magnetic fluids in sick people. This method of healing was known as Mesmerism.
In 1841 Scottish surgeon James Braid, adopted the terms of ?hypnosis? and ?hypnotism. He believed that mesmerism ?is a nervous sleep?.
The modern study of hypnosis is begun in the 1930s with Clark Leonard (1884-1952) and hi work ? Hypnosis and Suggestibility? in 1933.
Definition
Hypnotherapy is a therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.
- Panacea
Term: panaceaLiterally meaning : ?cure all? or ?all healing? Origin Anc Greek????????/panacea(=panacea)> ?[á?/pan(=all) + /á???/acos (= therapy) Coined/HistoryPanacea Helping the Sick. by the Veronese physician J. Gazola (1716) In...
- Empathy
Term: empathyOrigin: Anc Greek ?? /en(=in)+ ?????/pathos (=passion, sorrow, strong emotion) literally meaning ?feeling in?. CoinedHe was Scottish Philosopher, Economist and Historian David Hume (1711-1776 who first mentioned that ?sympathy?, or...
- Therapy
Term: therapy Literally meaning: "servicing" Origin: Anc Greek ????????/therapeia(=healing, attend, do service) >?????/threpho(=nurse, feed, nourishes) Definition: The medical treatment of disease Derivatives : Psychotherapy, chemotherapy,...
- Morphine
Term: morphineOrigin An Greek???????/morphine > M??????/Morpheus (=the son of Sleep, and the god of dreams). Coined/History Morpheus shaped or formed the dreams which appeared to the sleeper. (Ov. Met. xi. 635.). Morpheus brings...
- Week Four
A Drug For Everything? It seems like that is the way that we are headed. Clearly, there's an alarming trend toward medicalizing everything, even personality, and then making nearly every aspect of the human condition "treatable". Looked at from this...