Parasitism of the Zweeloo Woman: Dicrocoeliasis evidenced in a Roman period bog mummy.

The Effect of Mummy on Some Indices of Wound Healing in Mice

Introduction: Mummy was used in traditional medicine as a remedy for inflammation, articular injuries, rheumatism, bone fractures, wounds, and back pains. In a previous research, the healing effects of mummy on rabbit’s tibial fracture were studied and the results approved its efficacy. Considering some natives’ claim and suggestions of traditional medicine in regard to the effectiveness of mum...

Medical imaging of mummies and bog bodies--a mini-review.

Mummies are human remains with preservation of non-bony tissue. Mummification by natural influences results in so-called natural mummies, while mummification induced by active (human) intervention results in so-called artificial mummies, although many cultures practiced burial rites which to some degree involved both natural and artificial mummification. Since they are so uniquely well-preserve...

Imaging the Ancients

Mummified remains and artefacts, since their discovery, have attracted the interest of scientific investigators. Consequently virtually every paleoimaging modality has been applied to bioarchaeology soon after its technological development. Indeed, the first use of X-rays in mummy investigation was only one year after William Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895 when, in March 1896, Carl Koenig, a...

Observations on the efficiency of thiabendazole, albendazole and brotianide against natural dicrocoeliasis in sheep and goats in Iran

اثر دو رژیم آبیاری بر نوسانات فصلی جمعیت و خسارت Arboridia kermanshah Dlabola روی ارقام مختلف مو در اصفهان

The grape leafhopper, Arboridia kermanshah Dlabola (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), is an economically important pest of most vineyards in Isfahan. The effects of two irrigation regimes [normal (100 liter/ tree/ week) and minimum (100 liter/ tree/two weeks)] seasonal population changes and the damage of A. Kermanshah as well as  the percentage of leafhopper egg parasitism by Anagrus atomus were studi...