Medicine at a glance
The following are raw notes taken from the diary of Dr H S Gill that He used to write in His spare time, whenever He used to get some out of His extremely busy workload. The Foundation would like to publish these as they offer some deep insights yet light and interesting reading.
Old testament times, Hippocrates - Father of Modern Medicine, 600BC:
Whoever wishes to study medicine properly should proceed thus...
In the first place to consider the season of the year, the WATERS, the GROUND and the mode in which the inhabitants live and are the PURSUITS, whether they are fond of EATING and DRINKING to excess and given to SEDENTARY living or are fond of EXERCISE and LABOUR.
Food vs medicine
Hippocrates -
Let food be your medicine
Patient a commodity
There is shortage of doctors who have wholistic and holistic understanding and approach to take care of the whole person and not just his heart and liver.
Surely the lasting debt oh gratitude is due from mankind to those who shall discover an unerring sign of disease. The more so if the disease be of formidable nature. The more so still if the signs declare the disease early to bring our knowledge of it's existence fairly within the period that will allow it to be successfully treated by medicine. --- William B. Bean
UPAYOGAM SUKHAVAHAM
EXERCISE deficiency in affluent civilisation in most common disease.
Two types
• Chronological age (calendar age)
Depends upon chronological click. Process cannot be halted.
• Physical age ( biological age)
Depends upon hypothetical biological clock. Process can be stayed.
In the principal two surging process should not only match. Rather physical age must not precede chronological age.
AIM - not to achieve immortality but to decrease the in furniture and disabilities of old age and also to enjoy life rather to avoid death.
SHER SHAH SURI- when he defeated Humayun and became the ruler of Northern India, regretted he was too old then.
He remarked,
ALLAH in his wisdom granted me the empire of Hindustan at the time of Maghreb (evening prayer) of my life.
Yaaden maazi, gammein imroz
Khayal-e-fardan
Kitne saaye mere hamroh
Chala kartein hain
[Memories of the past. Sorrows of today,
Plans for the future
How many shadows go with me wherever I go]
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