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Since the time of Hippocrates, doctors have looked at patients hands for signs of ill health.
Mulled wine has been around for at least 2,000 years.
What the famous physician of ancient Greece, Hippocrates, can teach us about post-pandemic architecture.
Every time you pop an aspirin, thank the German chemist Hoffmann and not Hippocrates.
Bleach to defeat COVID-19 or fire to dispel plague, history is full of quack medicine.
The knowledge and experience of doctors offer much-needed lessons for our rancorous society.
Does it seem like everyone you know drinks apple cider vinegar, mainly in hopes of losing weight? Vinegar has a long history of high hopes attached to it. A doctor who loves vinegar explains.
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