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History, Ancient
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The conceptual ability to source, combine, and store substances that enhance technology or social practices represents a benchmark in the evolution of complex human cognition. Excavations in 2008 at Blombos Cave, South Africa, revealed a processing workshop where a liquefied ochre-ri...
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PMID: 21998386
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After describing the dossier of the medical works attributed to Cleopatra in the MD. Grmek fund deposited at IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l'Edition Contemporaine, Abbaye d'Ardenne, Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen), this paper reports some recent papyrological discoveries (P. Oxy. 71.4809, th...
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PMID: 21936215
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Bitumen, which results of the storage of organic material and of the decomposition in process of time, was used since ancient times for cosmetic, art and the caulk of boats. So, mummies were treated by bitumen to improve their preservation. But bitumen was held to be useful to cure varying pulmonary,...
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PMID: 21936212
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Medicinski pregled (64)3-4 2011
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THE ANCIENT TIMES: Many early civilisations left testimonies about ancient times and resuscitation, as well. Some of them did it successfully and some of them did it less successfully; however, all of them wished to help a dying person and to bring him back to life. The first trustworthy note can be...
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PMID: 21905608
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Veterinary Record (169)9 2011
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We identified a third candidate early domestication gene and conducted haplotype analyses of all three genes to address a recent, controversial hypothesis about the origin of cultivated sunflower. Although the scientific consensus had long been that sunflower was domesticated once in eastern North A...
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PMID: 21844335
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Orvosi Hetilap (152)34 2011
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Scientific American (305)1 2011
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Orvosi Hetilap (152)26 2011
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-DNA analysis have been widely used to predict ancestral origin. Genetic anthropologists predict that human civilizations may have originated in central Africa one to two million years previously. Primary iron overload is not a common diagnosis among indigenous people o...
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PMID: 21766093
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The connotation and core meaning of interior-exterior relation of meridians were studied and analyzed on the base of two meridian modes, namely the original meridian model and the zang-fu-meridian model. And it was concluded that different features and meanings can be found under the above two models...
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PMID: 21739696
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The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey (7400-5600 cal BC) is widely acknowledged for its role in the study of early farming communities. To better understand the social and community structure of this setting, an intracemetery biological distance analysis was conducted. Metric and nonmetric obse...
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PMID: 21590748
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Our conclusions stress the limitations imposed by interpreting carious lesions solely in terms of single dietary components, such as maize consumption, without taking into account broader aspects of cultural and socioeconomic relevance. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2011. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc....
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PMID: 21590750
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Our discovery of domestic dog bone in a human paleofecal sample provides the earliest direct evidence for human consumption of dogs in the New World. These data support the hypothesis that dogs were a food source for early Paleoamericans. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2011. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc....
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PMID: 21541929
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Subjects with IMGEJ appear to have distinct clinical characteristics and substantially lower cancer progression risk compared to those with BE.Am J Gastroenterol advance online publication, 12 April 2011; doi:10.1038/ajg.2011.130....
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PMID: 21483461
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We conducted immunologic examinations of desiccated tissue samples from two ancient Nubian populations, Wadi Halfa (N = 46) and Kulubnarti (N = 191). Saqia irrigated agriculture increases the available habitat for the aquatic vector snails and the risk of exposure. On the basis of evidence regarding...
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PMID: 21469072
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The knowledge of surface anatomy in the ancient classic Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing (A-B Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion) is expounded in this article through comprehensive reading of the book and study of surface anatomy. The description and application of body surface landmarks,recording of the lengt...
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PMID: 21528609
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Figure four of the Jiujing Tu (Illustration of Moxibustion) of the Dunhuang Caves is the earliest and the most complete recording of treatment for five kinds of strain and seven kinds of impairments in the history of acupuncture and moxibustion. Figure 12 is held as a mystery since it only provided i...
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PMID: 21528610
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Pathogenic members of the genus Corynebacterium cause a wide range of serious infections in humans including diphtheria. Adhesion to host cells is a crucial step during infection. In Corynebacterium diphtheriae, adhesion is mediated primarily by filamentous structures called pili or fimbriae that are...
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PMID: 21557059
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Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive (19)1 2011
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Globalization is a widely-used term that can be defined in a number of different ways. When used in an economic context, it refers to the reduction and removal of barriers between national borders in order to facilitate the flow of goods, capital, services and labour. Globalization is not a new pheno...
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PMID: 21471749
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[Historical aspects of the use of physical restraint: from antiquity to the era of moral treatment].
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The implementation of harsh methods of restriction has been seen since ancient times as an acceptable solution to the problems caused by mental illness. This practice was hardly questioned and only a few professionals struggled to improve the hard living conditions of the patients. A...
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PMID: 21553511
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We report a diverse assemblage of morphologically differentiated benthic macrofossils that were preserved largely in situ as carbonaceous compressions in black shales of the Ediacaran Lantian Formation (southern Anhui Province, South China). The Lantian biota, probably older than and taxonomically d...
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PMID: 21331041
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The language employed by the physicians in their communications has been suffering a continuous evolution through the times, from the sober beauty that in their conciseness and accuracy had the Greek and the Latin, to the verbosity and flowery of the Middle Age and posterior centuries, for ended in t...
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PMID: 21526293
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Minerva chirurgica (66)1 2011
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Can the tension-free suturless technique, used in the surgical treatment of inguinal hernia, to be the gold standard for treatment of inguinal hernia?
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PMID: 21389922
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We analyse housekeeping gene sequences of the human stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori from various countries in Southeast Asia and we provide evidence that H. pylori accompanied at least three ancient human migrations into this area: i) a migration from India introducing hpEurope bacteria into T...
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PMID: 21818291
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The Byzantine World covers the eleven-century period between 323-1453 AD and was characterized by a comprehensive system of medicine based on the fundamental principles of Ancient Greek medicine. Several clinical entities, such as epulis, parulis, constrictions of the tongue (short frenum), sublingua...
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PMID: 21563728
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We find references to the nepenthes, a mythical substance which can change the mood, causing sorrow and anger to be forgotten. We can not identify it with any of the well known substances that have these properties, such as opium from the opium poppy, the Egyptian kyfi or cannabis in the Scythians....
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PMID: 21688521
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Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie (52)1 Suppl 2011
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Pathology is a bridging discipline that involves both basic and clinical biomedical sciences. In this context, it includes both descriptive and mechanistic approaches, with the final goals of further understanding the anatomic and functional changes and underlying molecular events involved in disease...
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PMID: 21424058
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The author examines the question of Galen's affinity with astrology, in view of Galen's extended astrological discussion in the De diebus decretoriis (Critical Days). The critical passages from Galen are examined, and shown to be superficial in understanding. The author performs a lexical sounding of...
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PMID: 21879603
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Epidemiology and Infection (139)1 2011
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Brucellosis is a worldwide disease. Although it has been eradicated in some countries, it continues to be an important disease in many farming areas. Previous works have described the evolution and diffusion of brucellosis in antiquity through direct analysis of ancient human remains collected by th...
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PMID: 20447329
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Pediatric nursing (37)3 2011
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Presse Medicale (40)5 2011
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médecine/sciences (27)6-7 2011
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Essential tremor (ET) is among the most common neurological disorders. This chapter reviews the epidemiology, clinical features, and pathophysiology of ET. The defining feature is a kinetic tremor of the arms. Patients often have a postural tremor as well. Other body regions may also be involved (esp...
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PMID: 21496600
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Cancer of the breast, seen by Galen as the commonest cancer of his time, was probably first mentioned by Hippocrates in the 5th century BC. A single case history was described but no specific treatment mentioned. For centuries no further cases were described, until Cato, 2nd century BC, advocated cab...
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PMID: 21920120
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We present sulphur isotope records from six globally distributed stratigraphic sections of later Cambrian marine rocks (about 499 million years old). We find a positive sulphur isotope excursion in phase with the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE), a large and rapid excursion in the...
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PMID: 21209662
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Among ancient fanciful creatures, men without a head have often been represented since the end of the Middle-ages, especially during the Renaissance and until the 18th century. They are probably inspired from new-born anencephalic infants.
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PMID: 21598581
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Papyri are writings made on special sheets made out of reeds grown on the banks of the river Nile. The Authors comment on the relationship between a ritual text and surgical therapy with an exploration of an ancient charm as recorded in a Greek written papyrus stored in the Medicea Laurenziana Librar...
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PMID: 21657101
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Several characteristics of Egyptian culture and civilization could be identified in prehistoric and ancient historic Geto-Dacian territories, belonging to modern Romania (Fig. 1). From early times, magic, religion and philosophy have been part of pre-scientific medicine. Therefore these aspects are t...
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PMID: 21657103
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Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (135)51-52 2010
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Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (135)51-52 2010
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British Journal of Nutrition (104)11 2010
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We investigated selective and non-selective savannah, savannah/aquatic and aquatic hunter-gatherer/scavenger foraging strategies. We found (range of medians in en%) intakes of moderate-to-high protein (25-29), moderate-to-high fat (30-39) and moderate carbohydrates (39-40). The fatty acid compositio...
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PMID: 20860883
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This report considers the primitive treatment of the "Shanghan" in the chapter "Shanghanmen" of the Qianjinfang. In the primitive etiology of"Shanghan", there were three stages of the recognition of disease pathogenesis, which were first the existence in fear and awe, second the pois...
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PMID: 21661231
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Human milk has been and it is an important means of survival for the human being. The history of the breastfeeding has been linked to the woman's social and cultural situation and it has gone by different vicissitudes. During a long period the breastfeeding was considered as an unsightly unworthy pra...
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PMID: 21322188
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We report Δ(34)S values exceeding 50‰ from a terrestrial Mesoproterozoic (1.18 Gyr old) succession in Scotland, a time period that is at present poorly characterized. This level of fractionation implies disproportionation in the sulphur cycle, probably involving sulphide-oxidizing bacteria, tha...
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PMID: 21068840
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We show that the basin-scale abyssal circulation of the Atlantic Ocean was probably reversed during the Last Glacial Maximum and was dominated by northward water flow from the Southern Ocean. These conclusions are based on new high-resolution data from the South Atlantic Ocean that establish the bas...
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PMID: 21048764
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Hospital practice (1995) (38)4 2010
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Cardiac arrest occurs when organized cardiac contractility ceases and circulation stops. During cardiac arrest, electrical activity may be abnormal or absent, and the rhythm documented can be ventricular fibrillation, pulseless ventricular tachycardia, pulseless electrical activity, or asystole. It...
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PMID: 21068526
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