Drugs and Medicines Medicines and drugs are substances prescribed by doctors for the cure of illnesses and they should never be taken without the advice of a doctor. Drugs are used to cure or prevent illnesses, they are also treat emotional disorders, ease pain and relieve the effects of the disease. Prior to prescribing a drug a doctor examines the patient and based on the symptoms or medical tests he diagnoses...

Great Medical Discoveries    ANATOMIST was Andreas Vesalius who taught in an Italian university and wrote the greatest ‘book in the history of science, it was called ‘De Corporis Humani Fabrica’ (On the Structure of the human Body). BLOOD CIRCULATION WAS DISCOV-ERED BY an English doctor called William Harvey and the findings were published in 1628. PASTEURISATION WAS DISCOVERED BY a chemist called Louis Pasteur in 1866. His idea of heating...

The History of Medicine The Human body has always been prone to ailments and man has always tried to find new ways of curing sicknesses. Some of the initial methods of treatment were illogical but then they aroused man’s curiosity to know more about the human body thus leading to the development of modern medicine. Initially disease was looked upon with superstition and cure was, carried out by priests and magicians....

The Reproductive System Life on our planet has evolved, developed and continued because all creatures have some system which allows them to reproduce. The system of re-creating life is called reproduction. Both male and female human beings have reproductive glands and organs. The male sex organs are located outside the abdomen in the form of testes and a penis, while the woman’s reproductive organs are the ovaries which are located inside...

Facts about Our Body THE BODY IS MADE OF 65% Oxygen, 18.5%, – Carbon, 9.5% Hydrogen, 3.3% Nitrogen, 1.5% Calcium, % Phosphorus and 1.2% of other material. EYES ARE OF DIFFERENT COLOURS because in most cases we inherit the colours of our eyes from our parents. HAIR BECOMES GREY because in later life some or all of our hair grow without the pigment which gives them their colour. THE FUNNY BONE...

Human Muscles and Movement Movement of any part of the body would not be possible without muscles. Our body has about 650 muscles which move various parts of the skeleton. The largest muscles are the ones on our buttocks and the smallest ones are located in our ear. Half of our body weight is generally contributed by our muscles. Muscles are living tissue in our body which have the ability to...