Pictographs, ancient surgical tools and fossilised bodies bare witness to the fact that wound care is one of the earliest forms of medicine practised by man. Unfortunately, early scientific knowledge existed alongside religious and superstitious ideas. In some societies chronic wounds such as leg ulcers were viewed as an outward manifestation of evil. Treatments often involved making the body u...

Using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS), I examine ethnic and racial patterns of private school attendance. I find that a high level of racial sorting occurs between the private and public school systems. At both the 8th and 10th grade levels, blacks and Hispanics are substantially less likely to attend private schools than are whites. I also find evidence that racial...

Worth Estes's main interest lies in why and how ancient physicians used drugs to combat their patients' ailments. He considers the role of the physician in ancient Egypt, from Imhotep (deified by later generations as an Egyptian god of medicine) to the general practitioners. The two main sources of evidence for medicine in ancient Egypt are the medical papyri and the archaeological information ...

Diabetes is an “old disease”. The first description of diabetes written on papyrus about 3500 years ago is found in the Ebers papyrus, which was discovered in Egypt in 1873 by the German archeologist Georg Ebers. Humans, like most mammals, may develop diabetes, if sufficient environmental exposure to physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and obesity are present. Genetic effects are important for ...

how to cite this article: inaloo s, haghbin s. multiple sclerosis in children. iran j child neurol. 2013 spring;7(2):1-10.   multiple sclerosis (ms) is the most important immune-mediated demyelinated disease of human which is typically the disease of young adults. a total of 4% to 5% of ms population are pediatric. pediatric ms is defined as the appearance of ms before the age of sixteen. about...

Jaundice is one of the earliest diseases known to mankind. The present article documents the history of documentation of Jaundice and its various subtypes. Thus, this brief review serves, in-part, as one ready reference for history of Jaundice. Copyright © 2014, Indraprastha Medical Corporation Ltd. All rights reserved. The Talmud describes Jaundice as a sign of causeless hatred. Earliest refer...

Brief History. The use of medicinal substances for the treatment of pain and fever dates to ancient Egyptian and Grecian civilizations, where dried myrtle leaves or bitter extracts from the bark of poplar trees were used to treat back and abdominal pain. The Ebers papyrus from ancient Egypt (1850 B.C.) is the oldest preserved medical text and contains the first record documenting the use of pla...

MALNUTRITION as a cause of blindness has been and still is, much underestimated. In many countries it is the chief cause of blindness in young children. The onset is insidious and difficult to diagnose and the later stages proceed rapidly to irreversible damage. Opthalmologists have tended not to be particularly interested in conditions that do not make demands on their diagnostic or surgical s...

It is hard to decide when and where the opium poppy was first cultivated. It may have been grown for its seeds before people discovered how to prepare mekonion from the leaves and fruits of the plant or opium (from "opos," the Greek word for juice) from the liquid that appears on the unripe seed capsule when it is notched. The use of written records to decipher the early history of opium use an...

Background: Schistosoma mansoni was observed and reported in Kuluva hospital Arua District in north western Uganda as early as 1902. S. mansoni is widely distributed in Uganda along permanent water bodies. Objective: To review the litreture on scistosomiasis in Uganda, since 1902. Method: The core literature for this short review was searched from reports and publications by the British colonia...