How Medieval Doctors Understood and Treated Depression
A medieval scholar named Constantine the African wrote one of the earliest detailed guides about melancholy (what we now call depression) around 1,000 years …
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Ancient Arab Doctors Understood Sleep Better Than We Thought
Hundreds of years ago, Arab-Islamic scholars made amazing discoveries about sleep that we're only now fully appreciating. Doctors like al-Rāzī and Ibn Sīnā …
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