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Philip Norrie


Philip Norrie

Universities of New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Dr. Philip NORRIE MBBS,MA,MSc,MSocSc[Hons],PhD,MD,MPhil[cand] is a family physician from Sydney, Australia whose main interest is medical history. This medical history interest is in two parts. Firstly in the history of wine as a medicine for the past 5,000 years which was the topic of his PhD. After this Dr. Norrie developed the world’s first fully Resveratrol Enhanced Wine [REW]. The second interest is the role of infectious disease in the demise of ancient civilizations, which was the basis of his MD thesis and his current M.Phil thesis. Dr. Norrie is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at the Universities of New South Wales and Newcastle in Australia; as well as being an Affiliate in Medical History at the University of Montana,USA, an Adjunct in the National Institute of Complementary Medicine at the Western Sydney University [relating to REW]and the Vice Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee at the Northern Cancer Institute in Sydney.

Abstract

Abstract : A HISTORY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN ANCIENT TIMES – MORE LETHAL THAN WAR - AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL HISTORY PERSPECTIVE OF ANCIENT HISTORY