Tools in Health Archives

Stretcher and its bearers over the years

By rjoshimgims July 21, 2024Tools in Health2 Comments

Index Home Stretcher is an unassuming medical transportation device. It is unassuming, as it lays hidden between the patient and the stretcher-bearer. Stretcher bearers also are often unsung. Yet stretchers and…

Wavy ECG gestures that make our heart to beat

By rjoshimgims July 12, 2024Health concepts, Tools in Health3 Comments

Index Home We all live, without skipping a heart-beat. These are more than 25 billion beats over a life-time. Each of these beats means that our heart muscles have had a…

The rise and fall of needle less injections: jet-inject

By rjoshimgims June 7, 2024Tools in Health2 Comments

Index Home The other day, I was browsing through my cachet of health postage stamps. I came across a peculiar injection device in use in some stamps. This device was invented…

Stethoscope: An integral tool in medical practice

By rjoshimgims April 20, 2024Health concepts, Tools in Health15 Comments

Index Home First stethoscope was invented only in 1816. While this 200 year old instrument, is quite synonymous with medical practice, it is more of a physician's tool. It has evolved,…

Medical books and journals in postal stamps

By rjoshimgims March 17, 2024Health concepts, Misc, Tools in Health11 Comments

Index Home Every budding doctor needs to read many books. These medical books are not only an integral part of training, but also a companion for life. Today, in this world…

Bug of the soil to treat Tuberculosis

By rjoshimgims February 1, 2024Medical Diseases, Tools in Health10 Comments

Index Home Till the end of the second world war, Tuberculosis (TB) had no cure. Bed-rest, sunlight, and some fresh air were standard TB treatments. While some self-healed themselves, most would…

My postage stamp garden of unusual herbs & plants

By rjoshimgims December 30, 2023Tools in Health11 Comments

Index Home Our tryst with health-care, and use of plants as healers is long. While more well developed health systems used these in their formulary, remote and untouched communities also had…

Fifteen famous herbs and their use for health

By rjoshimgims December 25, 2023Tools in Health11 Comments

Index Home List of medicinal plants is long. This list gives space to both rare as well as common. Some of these plants, have beautiful and colourful flowers. Others have pungent…

Cinchona comes to rescue the world

By rjoshimgims December 17, 2023Tools in Health7 Comments

Index Home Man has known malaria for centuries. It is a fever, that comes with shaking chills, a lot of pain, and turns white of the eyes yellow. Sometimes this fever…

Award for most popular health plant goes to Aloe vera

By rjoshimgims December 13, 2023Tools in Health10 Comments

Index Home We all may look at tall and mighty in awe, but we love the grounded. This surely is true for the most popular health plant in the current times.…