History of ENT archive for July 2021

Illustration showing physician wearing a 17th century plague preventive.

From Hippocrates to COVID-19: sniffing out the disease

1 July 2021 | | ENT, COVID-19

The ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, used the ‘art of smell’ to diagnose diseases around 400BC. He also formulated miasmatic theory, which posited that disease is caused by bad smells. Bad air was strongly believed by many physicians to be the...