Can miraculous healings be equalized with "spontaneous remissions" from modern medical terminology? Following the trace of (mostly) medieval miracle accounts, the present paper, though arguing against the use of the term "spontaneous", supports the idea of equalization, finding clear examples of failed or incomplete healings, relapses, and the cases of saints who themselves were passing through...

The aim of the present paper has been to explore the medieval evidence on miraculous healings of paralysis and to confront it with modern medical knowledge. Paralysis has been selected as a model for such a study and St. Bernardino of Siena (1380-1444) as a model of a saintly healer. Analyzed were the primary sources and modern literature. Paralysis was found to be among the most frequent disea...

background: the effectiveness of low power lasers on incisional wound healing, because of confl icting results of previous studies, is uncertain. therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of low-level helium-neon (he-ne) laser irradiation on wound healing in rat’s oral mucosa. materials and methods: sixty-four standardized incisions were carried out on the buccal mucosa of 32...

BACKGROUND Large numbers of population suffer from burn annually. The promising treatment of burn has not been identified yet. Albizia julibressin (A. julibressin) in Fabaceae family is popular for its antiseptic activity. This prospective study was designed to compare the wound healing effects of A. julibressin gel (AG) with silver sulfadiazine (SSD). METHODS This single blind clinical tria...

Diabetes is a common metabolic disease that causes cardiovascular disease. Insulin and oral hypoglycemic drugs are the treatment for diabetes, but high percentage of patients cannot use allopathic rely on natural alternative healings. Camel milk with therapeutic properties, good source vitamins C, minerals such as Mn, iron, Cu, Zn; immunoglobulins compared to cow milk. camel great substitute du...

BACKGROUND Impaired wound healing as one of the complications arising from diabetes mellitus is a serious clinical issue. Recently, various cell therapies have been reported for promotion of wound healing. Skin-derived precursor cells (SKPs) are multipotent adult stem cells with the tendency to differentiate into neurons. We investigated the potency of promoting diabetic wound healing by the ap...

Low temperature plasma (LTP) coagulation equipment, which avoids causing burn injuries to patients, has been introducing into minimally invasive surgery. The mechanism by which this equipment stops bleeding is to directly occupy the injury with the formed blood clots, and different from the mechanism of the common electrical hemostatic devices that cauterize the tissues around the bleeding to s...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Despite the great effectiveness of antibiotics, no principle is more important in the care of open fractures than aggressive irrigation and debridement. Fixation of open fractures has a number of beneficial effects, including even the reduction of the risk of infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective study of the treatment of 116 open fractures of the lower limb of...