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Dissecting The Mummies Of Ancient Egypt
1,302 wordsAncient Egyptians do not routinely check into hospitals complaining of chest pains or sore muscles. There are no current medical reports that outline the symptoms or diagnosis of an ancient Egyptian's stomachache and no ancient Egyptian has shown up to any contemporary clinics for blood tests. The only way, therefore, for modern scientists and anthropologists to examine the cause, result, and other factors of ancient Egyptians' diseases is to study the preserved mummies. Through CAT scans, DNA t...
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England Journal Of Medicine Controlled Trial
1,965 wordsBy Herbert Macomber 1. What is a febrile seizure? Febrile convulsions (FC) or seizures (FS) are clonic or tonic-clonic seizures that most often occur in infancy or childhood, mainly occurring between four months and six years of age, with fever but without evidence of intracranial infection, antecedent epilepsy, or other definable cause. That is why they are often referred to as 'fever seizures' or 'febrile seizures. ' Most of the time when children have a seizure, or a convulsion, it's caused b...
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Chronically Ill Chronic Illness
2,008 words... providers. In addition, there are numerous factors affecting coping strategies and outcomes in parents with chronically ill children. Hughes and Caliandro (1996), Melnyk and Alpert-Gillis (1998) assert that social support serves as a some sort of buffer in decreasing parental stress related to the child's chronic illness. Social support also positively influences on coping in parents (Rodrigues, Geffken, Clark, Hunt, & Fisher, 1997). In such a way, assessment of the level of social support i...
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Due To The Fact Evil Spirits
2,122 wordsExorcism and Shamanism In this paper, I will attempt to examine how Shamanism is related to the phenomenon of Exorcism. Shamanism, as a practice, is widely spread throughout the whole world, and within the scope of this research, we will elaborate on various elements of Shamanism, emphasizing exorcism. Exorcism, as a word, is not always used by various researchers when they talk about Shamanism, therefore in some parts of this paper exorcism is referred to as spiritual healing. We will define ex...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Suffer From Depression
1,870 wordsA symptom of the bad times is that you think that they will never abate. You convince yourself that you are doomed forever to a state of half-life. You awake to a sighing gloom and an inordinate effort of will is required to leave your bed. You know that you should get up to arrest the feeling of despair, but the listlessness which is a characteristic of the condition holds you there, gazing upwards in static stare, musing over the endlessness of the day ahead. Everything is an effort and is car...
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People Who Are Suffering Point Of View
579 wordsIntroduction Many people have illnesses that could be fatal with no cure, some of these illnesses leave the person unable to speak, unable to hear, and just a complete vegetable. Some of these people would just lay in the same bed or sit in the same seat 24 hrs a day just waiting for the illness to get the better of them. These people are unable kill themselves as they cannot move, cannot get anyone else to kill them because it is against the law. I am for Euthanasia, I don t believe that people...
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American Cancer Society Anti Emetic
1,821 wordsHubert L. Black Sociology 105 Sembach April 10, 2001 Section A Should Marijuana Be Used As A Medicine? If we are think about people who have a serious medical problem that inflicts constant physical and mental pain do we ask ourselves theses questions? How much pain are they going through? What is their threshold? What is its frequency? How doest it effect their life, and are they terminally ill? How can we help them? Theses questions helped researchers arrive at one conclusion of using Marijuan...
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Mentally Handicapped Genetic Engineering
1,486 wordsImagine a world where only the genetically elite could get jobs. People who couldn t afford the gene-therapy would be left by the wayside. Why hire someone who s imperfect when there are thousands of genetically perfect people to chose from? These genetic alterations could be defined as anything that allows a parent to make a cosmetic decision about their unborn child. For example, genetic-tinkering would include any genetic alterations of intelligence; physical traits such as strength, speed, a...
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Deadly Disease 1 Html
1,052 wordsHand Virus As A Deadly Disease Hand virus is a dangerous and often deadly disease that must be guarded against. If proper precautions are not taken, hand virus could lead to a nationwide outbreak causing many deaths. While there are a few cases of hand virus reported each year, the consequences of coming down with the disease dictates that the U. S. set up certain safeguards to educate the population on how to protect themselves. Even though research is being done on hand virus and its related i...
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Short Term Memory Long Term Effects
2,276 wordsHemp Hemp is the plant called cannabis sativa which is more commonly called marijuana. Marijuana has been illegal in the U. S... ever since the Great Depression. The question we must ask ourselves is why? Why isa drug that has so many beneficial uses illegal? Is it because its poisoning the youth of today? Is it because it leads to harder drugs, the health problems, the addictive ness, the short-term memory impairment, the auto accidents, or is simply because politicians tell us it is for our ow...
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Mentally Ill Mental Illness
2,465 wordsInsanity the Idea and its Consequences by SzaszWell, I highly recommend Szaszs book Insanity: the Idea and its Consequences. I cant say for sure on this, but apparently there an overwhelming tendency among real doctors to define disease terms of objectively verifiable cell damage (perhaps parallel to TV-repairmen's definition of broken in terms of not turning on? ). Ive had the chance to ask one or two doctors about this, and they said that that is true, for whatever its worth. Apparently, patho...
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Effects Of Marijuana Smoked Marijuana
1,132 wordsFor the last fifty years there have been various debates over the legalization of cannabis sativa, more commonly known as marijuana, for it s medicinal potential. Many people in society are aware of the harmful and long-term effects of marijuana, and therefore are strongly opposed the drug. What people and governments around the world fail see is that marijuana has plenty of benefits, and could in fact, serve as a useful drug in the medical field. There have been millions of dollars spent to res...
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Mind And Body Sequence Of Events
1,242 wordsFor Materialist Theory Materialist Theory For many centuries, people have pondered upon the question if there is a relation between what we think and what we do physically. Our physical brain gives way to a mind, full of thoughts and processes, but what interaction do the two have? Materialism is a way that people consider the relations between mind and matter to be inseparable. We are physical beings and our mental reactions are just by-products of a material process. Materialism can be summed ...
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Serotonin Levels Large Amounts
863 wordsand the Mdma MDMA and the Affects on the brain OUTLINE Introduction 1. Brief History A. Originally created in 1912 as MDA (methylenedioxyamphetamine) B. In 1970 s interest in MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) for the Aid of Psychotherapy. -Key Effects a. empathetic understanding for others b. large, uncontrolled release of emotions C. When used Clinically, intended result was to have an affect on the Psychodynamic equilibrium (helped to bring repressed material into the walking consciousness)...
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Medicinal Marijuana Consumer Reports
1,429 wordsMedical Marijuana Marijuana (cannabis) is a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis sativa. [ 4 ] Marijuana is thought by many to be harmful, but it has been proven in fact to be helpful for some people with certain illnesses. [ 4 ] When I first started looking into medical marijuana as my research subject, I was curious to see what people my age actually thought about marijuana. I asked twenty of my peers, ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-two, What ...
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Smoking Marijuana Medical Marijuana
815 wordsMarijuana should be legalized in the United States for medical uses because it has been found to be useful in the treatment of many illnesses, as well as having many medical benefits. Marijuana is from the flower of the ganja plant; it is a mild, non-addictive drug with hallucinogenic properties. The are FDA recognizes and has provided permits for 8 medical marijuana patients in the United States. (1) Many individual states have their own provisions for medical use of marijuana and it is also re...
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Marijuana As Medicine Legalizing Marijuana
1,186 wordsCannabis sativa, most commonly known as marijuana, has been used for recreational and medical purposes for thousands of years. Many have smoked marijuana to experience the drugs psychedelic effects, while others use the drug to treat various illnesses and pain. Within the past century, however, the drugs medicinal value has come under much scrutiny. Those supporting the legalization of marijuana feel that the government has withheld a soothing drug from those who are suffering from severe illnes...
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Dangerous Side Effects Herbal Medicines
1,421 wordsOriental medicine has been around for thousands of years (the earliest Herbal, the Shennong, was completed around 200 BC), yet we still trust modern medicine and its dangerous side effects more. Western medications go through approximately a year of testing and can have unforeseen side effects, but Chinese medicine, even the more recent have been through hundreds of years of prescription. The Chinese Herbals contain medicines that the Western world considers toxic and extremely dangerous. Yet th...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Death With Dignity Act
2,535 wordsIntroduction The history of physician-assisted suicide began to emerge since the ancient time. Historians and ancient philosophers especially had been debating over this issue. Thus, this issue is no longer new to us. However, it seems little vague because it has not yet been fully told. The historical story consists of patterns of thought, advocacy, and interpretation on whether to legalize assisted death. " Only until June, 1999, the United States Supreme Court issued decisions in two cas...
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Doesn T Exist Auditory Hallucinations
1,837 wordsSchizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by a variety of symptoms and the disorganization of feeling and thought. It is an incurable disease whose causes are unknown, yet whose effects are mind and body crippling. (Young, 1988, p. 13 - 14) This topic was chosen because it is interesting to study a disorder that worldwide, is viewed as a classic example of madness and insanity. Another reason of interest is because unlike many illnesses, schizophrenia doesn t have a noticeabl...
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