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What do you know about acne?
May 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Acne is the a lot of accepted derma ataxia in the world. Blemishes, bumps, papules, pustules, spots, whiteheads, zits, goobers, the plague, or whatever you alarm it, about anybody is accountable to get it. In the United States and Canada, abscess affects 45 to 55 actor individuals at some point in their lives, the all-inclusive majority of whom are teenagers. In fact, about 80 percent of all adolescent humans will face at atomic an casual blemish of acne. Abscess imposes itself on adolescent men and adolescent women about... [Read the full story]
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Asbestos
March 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
any of several minerals that readily separate into long, flexible fibres. Chrysotile, the fibrous form of the mineral serpentine, is the best-known type and accounts for about 95 percent of all asbestos in commercial use. It is a hydrous magnesium silicate with the chemical composition of Mg3Si2O5(OH)4. The other types all belong to the amphibole group of minerals and include the fibrous forms of anthophyllite, amosite (grunerite), crocidolite (riebeckite), tremolite, and actinolite. Though valued since ancient times for... [Read the full story]
Aerospace
Aerospace medicine 2
December 25, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Specialized branch of medical science concerned with those medical problems encountered in human flight in the atmosphere (aviation medicine) and beyond the atmosphere (space medicine). The ultimate aim of this specialty is to promote the safety and effectiveness of humans while they are exposed to the stresses of aerospace flight, such as extreme temperatures, low atmospheric pressure, radiation, noise, vibrations, oxygen deprivation, and the strong forces of acceleration and deceleration. Other hazards of space flight... [Read the full story]
Folk
About folk medicine
December 25, 2006 · Leave a Comment
A relatively modern term, folk medicine has come to mean the care of the sick by unlicensed healers, including those who practice herbal and magical medicine. Since the mid-19th century, this field has become an important subdiscipline of folklore and in recent years has become of increasing interest to many people in the modern scientific medical community. Folk medicine has its roots in systems of healing that have persisted from the beginning of culture and flourished long before the development of systematic or scientific... [Read the full story]
Forensic
About forensic medicine
December 25, 2006 · Leave a Comment
The science that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal questions. The use of medical testimony in law cases predates by more than 1,000 years the first systematic presentation of the subject by the Italian Fortunatus Fidelis in 1598. Forensic medicine was recognized as a specialty early in the 19th century. The primary tool of forensic medicine has always been the autopsy (q.v.). Frequently used for identification of the dead, autopsies may also be conducted to determine the cause of death. In cases of... [Read the full story]
Herbal
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December 25, 2006 · Leave a Comment
ancient manual facilitating the identification of plants for medicinal purposes. Hundreds of medicinal plants were known in India before the Christian era, and the Chinese have a compilation, still authoritative, of 1,892 ancient herbal remedies. The Greeks had written accounts, and, according to the elder Pliny, the physician Crateuas (early 1st century BC) produced a herbal with coloured illustrations. This has not survived but was probably largely embodied in the De materia medica of the Greek physician Pedacius Dioscorides.... [Read the full story]
Holistic
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December 25, 2006 · Leave a Comment
The concept of holism was introduced by the South African prime minister and philosopher Jan Christian Smuts in 1925 as an alternative to the prevailing analytical and reductive way of scientific thinking. In Smuts’s theory of holism the whole organism and its systems are greater than the sum of their parts. The holistic (sometimes spelled wholistic) philosophy has expanded into the field of medicine. There are three basic aspects of the holistic approach to medicine. First, it emphasizes disease prevention by placing... [Read the full story]
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Ginseng is renowned for increasing the body’s resistance to cold. Scientists in Alberta, Canada, discovered that the active principle in the herb responsible for this action... [Read more]
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Allergies
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Allergies result from an abnormal reaction of the body’s immune system when it comes into contact with a particular substance. The substance (known as an allergen) does... [Read more]