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Brain Damage Side Effects
914 wordsI am doing a report on the disease Diphtheria. The definition of the disease is a bacterial disease that affects the throat and can cause serious or fatal complications. It is a serious disease caused by the bacterium. There is a lot of history on this disease. In the late 1800 s diphtheria came across western Europe and the United States, it killed thousands of children. The diphtheria characterized by infection is more contagious than the disease characterized by respiratory infection. Diphthe...
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Humans And Animals Pain And Suffering
675 wordsThe ability for scientists to give humans and animals longer, healthier lives is not a vicious inhumane crime; it is a miracle. Animal research is the key to preventing pain and suffering. Vaccines inhibit children from becoming crippled and disfigured by infectious diseases while suffering in the shadows of death. When speaking of the Diphtheria vaccine, The Research Defense Society states, .".. Before vaccination for Diphtheria was developed... as many as one in ten people, mostly children, ca...
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19 Th Century Infectious Disease
1,670 wordsDiseases and illnesses have been present from the very earliest times, and medicine and cures have always been reliefs widely searched for. It was a long time however, before man acknowledged the ability to apply the appropriate medical treatment for certain diseases. This was due to the slow increase of knowledge of how the parts of the human body function. Before the great scientific discoveries and breakthroughs of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, medical procedures were very reliant upon natur...
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Open My Mouth Doctors To Open My Mouth Girl
407 wordsI chose to read and respond to the story The Use of Force. This was my first choice because I can find myself in the story and can feel the message that it is putting across. There is a time in everyone persons life when they lie in order to hide something that they are ashamed of their problem, or they dont want to show that they are weak, or they dont want to be helped. Thats the case with the little girl Matilda in this story. She is very sick, she had a fever for three days and her tonsils a...
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Adverse Reactions Chicken Pox
1,032 wordsIn 1996 a mother took her six-month-old son, Jonah, to the doctor to get his DPT vaccination. Two days later, Jonah came down with an ear infection. Bobbie took him into the doctor and the child was given a prescription of amoxicillin. The ear infection soon healed and all went well for about two months when the infection returned. Bobbie again took Jonah to the physician where he, this time, gave the boy a stronger form of amoxicillin. Again the infection soon diminished. About four months late...
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Months Of Age Seven Days
474 wordsWhat is pertussis? Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious disease involving the respiratory tract. It is caused by a bacterium that is found in the mouth, nose and throat of an infected person. Approximately 100 to 200 cases are reported annually in New York State. Who gets pertussis? Pertussis can occur at any age. Although most of the reported cases occur in children under five years, 50 percent of these are in children under one year of age. How is pertussis spread? Pertussis is...
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Make Your Point Diphtheria Diphtheria Report
316 wordsDiphtheria is a Diphtheria Diphtheria Diphtheria is a very infectious disease, affecting children particularly, characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the passages of the upper respiratory system. Diphtheria bacilli enter the body through the mouth and nose and attack the mucous membranes, where they multiply and secrete a powerful toxin. The nose and throat increases in size and thickness, becoming a grayish false membrane, and it may block the air passages. surgery may be necess...
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Surgical Infection Medicine Today Diphtheria
433 wordsEarly Health and Medicine Today our personal health is often something we take for granted, because over the years we have developed more advanced vitamins, medicines, and cures for numerous sicknesses. In the early days, getting sick was much more terrifying than it is today. The cures for diseases were not much healthier than the diseases themselves. Any illness in the early 19 th century could be very serious, no matter how big or small. For example, today cancer is considered a very serious ...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Years Of Age
1,060 wordsRobinson has been the subject of more speculation? than almost any other poet of our time (Franchere 7). Numerous events in his life are reflected through his poetry. Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on December 22, 1869 in his fathers home in Head Tide, Maine beside the Sheepscot River. His family moved to the town of Gardiner, Maine, which was only a few miles away, when he was six months old. Gardiner is Tilbury Town used in his poems. He is the son of Edward and Mary Palmer Robinson. Dean a...
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Doctor Child
955 wordsIn William Carlos Williams? s? The Use of Force? it is apparent that the physician took great gratification in defeating the tenacious child in her valiant attack towards him during an examination. During their physical discord another struggle manifested concerning who had control and power above the other. It could be stated that the doctor was doing his duty overpowering the girl for the sake of her health. However, he strangely and almost perversely enjoyed the dominance over the child. In t...
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Nobel Prize Immune System
1,009 wordsI. A World To Change Everyone on this earth has to be grateful to Paul Ehrlich because he made so many advances in medical research. Our life expectancy rate would still be around forty years if Ehrlich hadn? t been interested in chemistry and biology as a young boy. If Ehrlich hadn? t combined so many different chemicals, he would have never combined the chemical known as number 606. Ehrlich helped Emil von Behring find an antitoxin for diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that particularly affe...
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Nobel Prize Immune System
997 wordsI. A World To Change Everyone on this earth has to be grateful to Paul Ehrlich because he made so many advances in medical research. Our life expectancy rate would still be around forty years if Ehrlich hadn t been interested in chemistry and biology as a young boy. If Ehrlich hadn t combined so many different chemicals, he would have never combined the chemical known as number 606. Ehrlich helped Emil von Behring find an antitoxin for diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that particularly affect...
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