Show music medical science once closely connected the connection between music and medical science is as old as history itself in he earliest stages of mankind magicians and medicine men effected cures of every form of ailment by means of music and certain races still use their methods the hellenes of ancient greece employed music as a means of curing illness homer wrote that odysseus could stop the flow of blood by playing music again diseases rite rife in old troy were swept away by music galenus proclaimed that music was the best cure for snake bites and scorpion stings and we are told states a writer in pearsons london weekly was successful in bringing about such cures galenus tells us that damon ak sm singer g er of miletus was able Z by K ta ing certain songs to drive intoxicated C young people into a frenzy he could also quiet them with a different type of song in the bible we re read ad that before derno demolishing lishin the house of the philistines samson acquired strength by playing on and singing to the harp david with his harp charmed away saurs sauls melancholy in the middle ages pipers or flute players used to perform in the street when a madman had one of his periodic fits they accompanied him home and in most cases were able to restore him to sanity |