Vital Statistics

摘要

Well before laboratory medicine yieldedinsights into the prognosis of human diseaseand provided prophetic hints of thefuture, astrology declared that the configurationof the stars and the movementsof the sun and moon foretold the characterand destiny of humans and theirailments. It is not surprising, therefore,that so many terms, some medical, havelexical roots in the Greek and Latin wordsfor the celestial bodies.