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Pneumonic Plague Bubonic Plague
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In the early 1330 s an outbreak of deadly bubonic
plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects
rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to
people. Once people are infected, they infect
others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a
painful swelling of the lymph glands called
buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease
also causes spots on the skin that are red at
first and then turn black. Since China was one of
the busiest of the world's trading nations, it was
only a matter of tim...
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Smoked Marijuana Muscle Spasms
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... approved proposition 215, an initiative that
could, in effect, make marijuana legally available
as a medicine in the United States for the first
time in many years. Under this new law, patients
or their primary caregivers that possess or
cultivate marijuana for medical treatment
recommended by a physician are exempted from
criminal prosecution. The treatment may be for
cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity,
glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other
illness for which marijuana pr...
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Stimulating Factors Or Triggers Factors Or Triggers Asthma
725 words
Asthma is a condition of the bronchial tubes
characterized by episodes of constriction and
increased mucous production. A person with asthma
has bronchial tubes that are super sensitive to
various stimuli, or triggers, that can produce
asthma symptom. In other words, asthmatics have
special sensitivity that causes their lung tissue
to react far more than is should to various
stimulating factors or triggers. For this reason,
people with asthma are said to have "twitchy
airways. " Some symptoms th...
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White Blood Cells Parts Of The Body
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Circulatory System is the combined function of the
heart, blood, and blood vessels to transport
oxygen and nutrients to organs and tissues
throughout the body and carry away waste products.
The circulatory system increases the flow of blood
to meet increased energy demands during exercise
and regulates body temperature. Also, when foreign
substances or organisms invade the body, the
circulatory system quickly sends disease-fighting
elements of the immune system, such as white blood
cells and ant...
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Million Years Ago Long Period Of Time
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From Water to Land (Revision) Abstract: The early
tetrapods were the first vertebrates to actually
walk the solid earth. They began their conquest of
land in the Paleozoic era around 360 million years
ago. The question many paleontologists have been
asking for a long period of time is whether the
anatomy for locomotion on land was developed in
water for swimming purposes, or if it was adapted
after the creatures became terrestrial. Recent
findings of fossils indicate that the
transformations of ...
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Second Hand Smoke Heart Rate And Blood Pressure
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The Aspects of Smoking Many years ago, smoking was
considered alluring habit and it was quite popular
to smoke. However, when it was scientifically
proved after numerous researches that smoking was
the cause of many health problems, the public
opinion towards smoking had changed a lot. Over
the last 40 years, approximately the number of
smokers in the United States has dropped 30 %.
Private businesses and all levels of government
have jumped on the nonsmoking bandwagon. Almost
every state now re...
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Makes It Hard Tobacco Companies
346 words
Smoking has many effects on the body and tobacco
companies have many ways to advertise but one
major target group. In this paper I will tell how
they do both. Smoking has effects on all parts of
the body. We? ll start with the brain. Smoking
impairs your ability to concentrate and to think
straight. It also kills brain cells and decreases
the amount of oxygen that goes to there. It also
effects the heart, it tightens up the arteries and
therefor makes the heart work harder, shortening
the averag...
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Vena Cava Blood Vessels
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The Circulatory System The circulatory system in
anatomy and physiology is the course taken by the
blood through the arteries, capillaries, and veins
and back to the heart. In humans and the higher
vertebrates, the heart is made up of four chambers
the right and left auricles, or atria, and the
right and left ventricles. The right side of the
heart pumps oxygen-poor blood from the cells of
the body back to the lungs for new oxygen; the
left side of the heart receives blood rich in
oxygen from th...
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Health Care Professionals Skin Test
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Tuberculosis (TB) is Tuberculosis Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused
by a germ (bacterium) called Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. This germ primarily affects the
lungs and may infect anyone at any age. In the
United States, the number of TB cases steadily
decreased until 1986 when an increase was noted;
TB has continued to rise since. Today, ten million
individuals are infected in the U. S. , as
evidenced by positive skin tests, with
approximately 26, 000 new cases of act...
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Pearl S Buck Family And Friends
833 words
The Good Earth: Wang Lung A Man of Determination
and Loyalty Pearl S. Buck shows her readers the
many faces of Wang Lung in her book, The Good
Earth. Wang Lung is a rice farmer who gains all
his wealth through the land. He struggles to move
from poverty to a well respected wealthy man. Wang
Lungs character portrays a mans unselfishness,
determination, and loyalty towards his family and
friends. Wang Lungs caring and generous nature
towards his family and friends make him a
well-liked person. Dur...
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Live His Life People With Cf
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In Cystic Fibrosis CYSTIC FIBROSIS In today? s
world there are a numerous amount of diseases.
Diseases that people are ignorant to. Not by
choice but due to the fact that they are not
around that particular disease. One disease that
people aren? t familiar with or around is Cystic
Fibrosis. A good friend of mine has Cystic
Fibrosis and that is what sparked my interest in
this particular disease. He is just like any other
teenager and does the same activities as you and
I. You will learn more abo...
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Central Nervous System Loss Of Appetite
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Drugs Abuse occurs when a drug is taken for
unintended purposes and can lead to addiction.
Addiction occurs when a person must use the drug
to feel and function normally. Addiction occurs in
two types, physical and psychological. Physical
addiction is caused the brain, the brain produces
fewer chemicals or neurotransmitters to make up
for the extra chemicals therefore the brain needs
the chemicals from the drug to reach the correct
balance and individual becomes out of touch with
reality. Psycho...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Froth Corrupted
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Dulce et Decorum Est is one of the most powerful
poems ever expressed. The tone of voice and
imagery created in your mind, the tension you feel
when you read through it, they all make you feel
as if you are actually in the poem. The tone of
the poem seems to be very antagonistic and bitter.
Knock kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through
sludge. Is an example of aggressive tone and
bitterness. It gives you an idea about the
soldiers going barmy on the mud they have to
trudge through. Irritate...
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Long Term Effects Effects Of Cannabis
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Effects Of Pot Marijuana has been used as a drug
since the beginning office, yet there are still
many mysteries about its health effects on humans.
Marijuana, or cannabis sativa, is a preparation of
the crushed flowers and buds of female hemp plant.
The existence of the plant has been reported as
early as 1500 - 1200 BC. in China, and cannabis
has been described as an analgesic as early as 200
AD. Since then, an overwhelming number of studies
have attempted to explain the physical and
psychologi...
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Arms And Legs Effects Of Smoking
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Effects of Smoking On the Body Smoking cigarettes
has been proven too be extremely dangerous to your
health, which causes various forms of cancer and
other life threatening diseases. There are over 4,
000 chemicals in cigarette smoke and 200 of those
are known poisons. Smoking cigarettes for as few
as a couple of years can have permanent effects on
the body. Smoking can effect the heart and lungs;
mouth and throat; arms, legs, skin and the mind.
One big area of where smoking harms the body is
th...
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Pearl S Buck Wang Lung
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Throughout The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, O-lan
showed herself as a very humble woman. O-lan was a
slave in the House of Hwang before her marriage
was arranged by the Old Mistress of the House of
Hwang. O-lan was faithful throughout the book to
Wang Lung through harvest, famine, and even when
Wang Lung brought home another woman. O-lan was a
hard worker and worked even when no one told her
to. She had wisdom that only a slave and a
hardworking woman could acquire. Pearl S. Buck
reveals many th...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Hemorrhagic Fever
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Hantavirus: A Four Corners Study When a new virus
appeared in the Four Corners region, American
scientists were stumped. What was causing such a
quick death to such healthy people? Was there a
potential epidemic on their hands? No one knew,
and when they finally determined that a strain
hantavirus was involved, many were shocked. This
had to be something completely new to the
hantavirus family and that was somewhat
overwhelming. Normally, the hantavirus only
affects the kidneys, but this new vir...
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Marijuana Smokers Legalizing Marijuana
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THE RECREATIONAL POISON The debate is whether or
not marijuana and other drugs should be legalized
for personal use. The marijuana plant may serve
several beneficial uses to us, but there is one
use in which it is only harmful. Marijuana should
not be legalized for personal use because people
do not understand, or care about the effects it
causes on them and the people around them. While
the War on Drugs attempts to dissuade people from
using drugs primarily in economic terms (Boyle,
3), I want ...
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Lymph Nodes Lung Disease
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Sarcoidosis is an Sarcoidosis Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is an awful disease that is afflicting
people worldwide. Although not much is known about
what brings the disease about, much medical
research has been done to try and help patients
cope with their ailments. The term Sarcoidosis is
derived from two Latin words, Sarah and Oid. When
put together the term means like cutting flesh
(web). This term describes exactly how the
physical bodies of Sarcoid patients feel.
Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory d...
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Schedule Ii Drug United States Government
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English 3 Block G April 18, 2001 ii Outline
Thesis: The use of marijuana for medicinal
purposes should be legalized by the United States
government due to marijuana s numerous medicinal
uses, it s relative safety as a medication, and
the many possible threats of continued
prohibition. I. Introduction A. Quote: Federal
authorities should rescind their prohibition of
the medical use of marijuana for seriously ill
patients and allow physicians to decide which
patients to treat. The government shoul...
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