Eunuchs in the Bible

The lifespan of Korean eunuchs

The chimpanzee fetuses used in our study showed a significant agerelated change in brain volume over the course of the study period (Figure 1B,C). The volume of the chimpanzee brain increased nonlinearly from 14 to 34 weeks of gestation (F = 634.28; cubic effect, p < 0.0001) (Figure 1C). The brain volume of the chimpanzee was only half that of the human fetus at 16 weeks of gestation (15.8 cm3;...

HIV seroprevalence among eunuchs.

Eunuchs Do Not Take the Gout

Throughout the ages gout has always been linked with sex and drink. The disease is certainly becoming rare?are we not the men we were? Gout has been described by Warner as the "dominus morborum et morbus domi-norum"?the disease of the erudite and the greatest of all diseases. Williams Cadogan commences his fifteenth-century essay on gout with the remark that "to enjoy good health is better than...

Venereal disease in the Bible.

The existence or otherwise of allusions to syphilis in the books of the Old Testament is of more than passing interest to the venereologist, as it is of importance not only in considering arguments for and against the Columbian theory of the American origin of the disease in Europe, but also in the protracted dispute as to whether yaws and syphilis are or are not the same disease or modificatio...

Sexual Activity during Menstruation in The Holy Bible and Quran