By Yvette Brazier
Medically reviewed by Daniel Murrell, M.D.
November 9, 2018
Source: Medical News Today
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Medicine and math
In the early days of ancient Greece, medicine was not yet a definable subject. In time, specialists in other fields brought knowledge to bear on the field of health, and they established the discipline of medicine.
Pythagoras lived in the 6th century B.C.E. He was a mathematician who brought his theory of numbers into the natural sciences.
His followers believed that numbers had precise meanings, especially the numbers 4 and 7.
They noted that:
7 x 4 is 28, the length of the lunar month and the menstrual cycle
7 x 40 is 280, the number of days of a full-term pregnancy
They also believed that a baby that was born in the seventh month, rather than the eighth, would enjoy better health.
The 40-day quarantine period to avoid disease contagion comes from the idea that the number 40 is sacred.
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