| This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2009) | Historically‚ most women gave birth at home without emergency medical care available. The "natural" rate of maternal mortality—where nothing is done to prevent maternal death—has been estimated at 1500 per 100‚000 births. In the United States circa 1900‚ before the introduction and improvement of modern
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up‚ Kepler was said to be a very sickly child. He had gotten smallpox as a child‚ which crippled him with poor vision‚ and crippled hands for the rest of his life. He was a son to Heinrich Kepler‚ a mercenary soldier‚ and Katharina Guldenmann‚ a herbalist‚ and healer. His mother‚being a specialist in the herbs‚ had decided to specialize in a new form of healing. This finding led to the suspicion of probable witchcraft. She was trailed against
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. Insomnia Treatments and Efficacy By: Holly Sandoval PSY 101: Introduction to Psychology Dr. Carrie Natale November 5‚ 2012 Insomnia Treatments and Efficacy Insomnia is a medical condition that affects millions of people all over the nation. In fact‚ 48% of Americans admit to having occasional bouts of insomnia and 22% report suffering from insomnia every night or every other night. (National Sleep Foundation‚ 2011) So why are Americans so sleepless? There are many known causes of insomnia
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What makes for a good doctor? It’s not just their ability to diagnose and treat a case‚ or how good their bedside manner is. It includes how they handle morally ambiguous questions while keeping the patient’s best interest at heart. In a day most doctors will see about thirty patients unless they are a specialist or determine their own hours. Of those thirty cases‚ only one or two will face problems that make you question what you believe. In those cases you must establish what you are willing to
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The family as a social institution is a brewery for patriarchal practices by socializing the young to accept sexually differential roles. In the Shona culture‚ from a tender age‚ the socialization process differentiates a girl child from a boy child. Shona males are socialized to view themselves as breadwinners and heads of households whilst females are taught to be obedient and submissive housekeepers. The cause of such differentiation and discrimination is the fact that
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According to Canadian Ethnobotanist Wade Davis the main drug was derived from the poisonous tetrodotoxins of puffer fish. He mentioned one concoction which contained that toxin along with bufo toads‚ a crushed human infant skull‚ sea worm‚ blue lizards‚ mimosa and itchy peas. The ingredients were powdered and perhaps ingested‚ or blown into the face of an intended victim. As it entered the blood stream it caused “death” in about a half hour. The death is permanent if the toxin dose is slightly too
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Alternative or Complimentary medicine comes from China. This medicine was developed several thousand years ago. Shen Nong‚ the Fire Emperor‚ said to have lived from 2698 to 2598 BC is considered the founder of herbal medicine Chinese medicine is based on the text written by Huang Di‚ The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine. This book was written before the birth of Hippocrates‚ the father of modern medicine. Ancient Chinese medicine was based on the idea of balance. Life energy
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the temple and prepared remedies for the patients ("History"). In ancient Greece and Rome and also during the Middle Ages in Europe‚ the practice of pharmacy recognized a separation between the duties of the physician and those of the herbalist‚ which supplied the physician with the raw materials from which to formulate Peterson 2 medicines ("History"). The Arabian influence in Europe during the eighth century A.D. brought about the practice of separate duties for the pharmacists and
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Goiter remedies How Can Natural Thyroid Treatment Methods Help Cure Goiter? The way natural thyroid treatment methods can help cure goiter is by getting to the root cause of the problem. Of course if it’s caused by a malignancy then natural treatment methods probably won’t be the best option. So the first obvious step in curing goiter is to determine what the underlying cause of the condition is. When I was diagnosed with Graves’ Disease‚ the two primary causes of my autoimmune hyperthyroid
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The Feasibiliy of Garlic (Allium sativum) Bulb Extracts as a substitute for essential oils used in Hand Sanitizers It is amazing to realize that between 10‚000 and 10 Million microorganisms are living on each hand. Hand Sanitizers prevent illness by killing almost every one of them. One of the greatest advances in the history of Medicine was the discovery of microorganisms and their connection to disease. Less than 150 years ago‚ surgeons were performing surgery without even washing their
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