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Volume 16: Number 1: Article 2
The Pineal Gland and the Ancient Art of Iatromathematica
Frank McGillion, 12 Whitley Court, 84 Westmoreland Road, Bromley,
Kent, BR2 0QT, England
The medical astrologers of Ancient Greece: the iatromathematici, and
the later European physician-astrologers, assumed a correlation between
events in the heavens and those on earth that was relevant to both health
and disease. Some of the early practitioners of modern scientific medicine
did the same under the aegis of what we might term, proto-cosmobiology,
though none could provide an adequate mechanism to explain the nature
of the link they believed existed between the skies and ourselves. With
the discovery and elucidation of the pineal gland's functions in the
mid twentieth century, which are discussed in detail, we were in a position
to provide such a link, and we can now to a great extent explain in
conventional scientific terms how those influences of the sun, moon,
planets and other celestial phenomena studied by the early iatromathematici
and early cosmobiologists could, can, and do, affect us.
Keywords: pineal gland, melatonin, astrology, geomagnetism, planetary
influences
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