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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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Veterinary Record (169)9 2011
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The ancient cultural tradition in the middle belt region of northern Ghana, with its stone circle and house mounds, contains varied material culture. The unique contextual arrangements of the material culture within the stone circle mounds and the diverse ceramic art forms, as well as their ethnograp...
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PMID: 21810037
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The prevalence of adult-type hypolactasia varies ethnically and geographically among populations. A C/T-13910 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) upstream of the lactase gene is known to be associated with lactase non-persistence in Europeans. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of...
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PMID: 21365615
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Infant abandonment and the foundling wheel in 19th-century Italy.
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PMID: 21613925
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We use biogeochemistry and bioarchaeology to investigate how imperialism may have reshaped regional political organization and regional migration patterns in the Wari Empire of the Andean Middle Horizon (ca. AD 600-1000). Radiogenic strontium isotope analysis of human remains from the site of Bering...
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PMID: 21469073
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We observed a high proportion of nonsurvivors exhibiting porotic cranial lesions during the first 2 years of life. Contrary to expectations, infants and juveniles without evidence of porotic cranial lesions exhibited a higher degree of stunting. Our study is generally consistent with previous resear...
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PMID: 21469079
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We offer selected historical reflections from the western world on vascular trauma. Whereas there are a number of key individuals and a variety of events that are important to us in our writing, we know essentially nothing about what is written by other cultures and, particularly, the Chinese. It is...
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PMID: 21453570
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The simple management of complexity, allows the definition of learning and of change strategies based on applying smart copying to innovation.
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PMID: 21572495
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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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This manuscript offers a brief review of the orthopedic subjects in the Canon of Medicine. Highlights include, but are not limited to, the anatomy of the musculoskeletal system, fractures and dislocations, nerve and tendon injuries, different types of wounds and ulcers, and bone infections. Some of t...
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PMID: 21361728
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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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The phrase the "Brain is the House of Yuanshen" is used in "Bencao Gangmu" in order to explain the reason why magnolia flower is good for sinus problems; however, the ideas on the relationship between the brain and the nose originate from "Huangdi Neijing" and those on the relationship between the br...
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PMID: 21797056
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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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Our results highlight a distinct pattern in body size and shape variation in relation to status and sex. Male subsamples exhibit significant postcranial variation in body size, while female subsamples express smaller, nonsignificant differences. The analysis of segmental proportions highlighted diff...
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PMID: 21312185
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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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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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Acta Chirurgica Belgica (111)2 2011
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Henri de Mondeville's manuscript, presented in this article, is based on an incomplete Latin manuscript, written from 1306 to 1320, translated into French by E. Nicaise and kept in the Manuscript section of the Bibliothbque Nationale de Paris (MS French 2030).
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PMID: 21618860
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I argue that concubines were not a unitary group. Their experiences varied instead according to their status and the regions they inhabited. For instance, while laywomen who became priests’ concubines moved into their lovers’ homes, nuns retained cells in their religious houses during these rela...
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PMID: 21744542
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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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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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Historical Research (84)224 2011
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Of all the oriental spices, black pepper was the most important until the eighteenth century. The historiography of the pepper trade is characterized by a strong focus on Europe in terms of both its economic significance in the ancient and medieval periods and the struggle for its co...
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PMID: 21695845
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Italian journal of anatomy and embryology = Archivio italiano di anatomia ed embriologia (116)1 2011
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Pietro d'Abano is recognized as a leading figure in the early history of European medical faculties. Translator and scholar, he translated and commented in Latin the doctrines of Greek and Arab physicians and philosophers having an ambitious attempt, to reconcile the opposing views of Arab medicine a...
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PMID: 21898974
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Pediatric nursing (37)3 2011
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This paper reveals the dosages of decoctions in Shanghanlun in relation of pills and powder formulations, and obtains following results. At the first examination of the system of weight, while Taohongjing shows three kinds of system of weight; [(1)1liang is equivalent to 14 g. (2) 1liang = 7 g (3) 1l...
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PMID: 21796994
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Past & Present (211)1 2011
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Psychiatria polska (45)2 2011
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Dancing mania is a clinical and cultural phenomenon which occurred in Western Europe between 13th and 18th centuries. The term dancing mania is derived from the Greek words choros, a dance, and mania, a madness. An Italian variant was known as tarantism as victims were believed to ha...
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PMID: 21714215
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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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The saga of malaria parasites precedes the history of humans. Malaria has always been part of the rising and decline of nations, of wars and of upheavals. People of ancient times attributed the malarial manifestations to supernatural influences. Myths about demons responsible for fevers and efforts...
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PMID: 20601857
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We review The Index of Physicians-Oyoun al-Anbaa Fi Tabaqat al-Attiba--(Sources of Information in the Classes of Physicians) of ibn Abi Ussaibea.The biographies in this book do not just cover physicians only but also the learned people of his day whose knowledge and expertise covered medicine, astro...
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PMID: 21657100
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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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The officina was the building, usually an out-building, in medieval monasteries where medical monks prepared medicaments and pharmaceutical preparations to heal the sick. Dried extracts, infusions, decoctions, tinctures and distillates were prepared therein. Often the officina was attached to the med...
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PMID: 21657104
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We intend to discuss the various openings, focusing in particular on the findings of the most recent recognition in 2003. This investigation confirmed that the skeleton is indeed Petrarca's, with the notable exception of the skull fragments, which turn out to be attributable to a member of the femal...
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PMID: 21657106
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We conclude that the possible existence of enzootic areas in that region might have been responsible for the causation of the numerous outbreaks of the bubonic plague in the Eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire during the 6th-8th century period....
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PMID: 21657102
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Beginning with the meaning and use of the word "performance," this essay analyzes some of the ambiguities and tensions performance has historically engendered. These tensions were both social and epistemic and can be sketched out with relation to either the corrupting influences of performance as dis...
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PMID: 21409986
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[From influence to confluence : positioning the history of pre-modern Korean medicine in East Asia].
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This article surveys studies focusing on pre-modern Korean medicine, which are both written in English and analyzed primary sources up to 1876. Overall, the history of pre-modern Korean medicine is an unknown filed in Anglophone academia. Yung Sik Kim's, James Palais's, and Carter Ecart's problematiz...
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PMID: 21330772
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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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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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Review of the earliest written descriptions and reports of cancer show that ancient physicians and surgeons made gradual progress in understanding cancer. It became clear to most of them that early detection and complete removal, before the cancer became ulcerated, afforded the best outcome.
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PMID: 20960499
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These results are examined in light of previous analyses of East Smithfield and what is known about diet and sexually mediated access to resources in medieval England....
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PMID: 20853482
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This study employs juvenile cranial data derived from collections dating to between about 5000 years ago and the present in order to investigate how differences in cranial growth trajectories contributed to inter-group variation in cranial shape among temporally defined Japanese populations. As gene...
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PMID: 20846649
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Dental caries and periapical lesions have often been studied in archaeological samples. The majority of these studies concern lesions detected clinically and, in some cases, radiography is used to improve the scoring results. The purpose of the present study was to compare and combine the two method...
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PMID: 20813364
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Revue d histoire de la pharmacie (58)367 2010
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The long-lasting fame of Montpellier's theriac does not come from the originality of its composition. In the Middle Ages, its formula followed Antidotarium Nicolai's while, in the modern period, it copied Galen's. This fame is explained by the reputation of the medical University, by the dynamism of...
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PMID: 21560363
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Revue d histoire de la pharmacie (58)367 2010
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The Greek treatises about antidotes of Andromaque and Galen, have been the subject of various translations in Arabic language. Thus, numerous highly interested arab-muslim physicians discovered, used and then spread the formulae of the Great Theriac. Two attitudes can be distinguished at first: they...
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PMID: 21560362
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Psychological Reports (107)2 2010
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These results are believed to be of practical importance to the diverse organizations administering integrity tests....
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PMID: 21117489
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La Revue du praticien (60)7 2010
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The response to treatment was the diagnostic mainstay in ancient times when diseases were poorly understood. Now that the bases of most diseases are known, appropriate diagnostic means are available. However, many physicians still rely on therapeutic tests to establish diagnoses. Since most illnesse...
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PMID: 20716691
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Archives de Pédiatrie (17)9 2010
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We had many reliable antibiotics but had not any antiviral drug at the early time. After year 2000, we fortunately obtained reliable three antiviral drugs such as amantadine, oseltamivir and zanamivir. Moreover, very useful rapid test kits for influenza A and B viruses were developed and used in Jap...
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PMID: 20845733
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