Friday, December 11, 2009
TAKE TWO PAWNS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING
According to Chernev; the Greek physicians Galan and Hippocrates (the father of medicine) considered chess a potent antidote to diarrhoea (diarrhea) and erysipelas (an acute skin disease), and prescibed it with success.
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Perhaps Chernev had read H.J.R. Murray's 1913 tome A History of Chess:
"Hippocrates and Galen apparently found in chess a potent antidote to diarrhoea and erysipelas, and prescribed it with success, while Aristotle figures among the many hypothetical inventors of chess."
http://books.google.com/books?id=VBYLAAAAIAAJ&q=galen
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