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Art and Medicine: from anatomic studies to Visual Thinking Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Over the centuries the collaboration between artists and doctors and the relationship between art and medicine disciplines have been documented. Since the '60s the discipline of medical humanities has been developed in order to enrich the studies in ...
De Santis, Sara   +2 more
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The diagnosis and treatment of wounds in the old English medical collections: Anglo-Saxon surgery? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This volume brings together essays that consider wounding and/or wound repair from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across ...
Banham, Deborah, Voth, C.
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“On Leeches” in a Medical Treatise for Humans

open access: yesHistory of Science in South Asia
Humans and leeches have engaged in human medicine together for at least two thousand years. Perhaps the earliest detailed description of this interaction is found in a chapter on leech therapy from an early first-millennium Sanskrit surgical treatise ...
Lisa Allette Brooks
doaj   +1 more source

Seroprevalence of hepatitis B infection and associated risk factors among drug users in drop-in centers of Isfahan, Iran

open access: yesInternational Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2018
Background: Scientists perceive drug users (DUs) as a high-risk population for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Effective strategies aiming at the reduction of HBV infection can be depicted when its epidemiological status is clearly defined.
Roya Taleban   +7 more
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Case notes and clinicians : Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic epidemics in the Arabic tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Galen’s Commentaries on the Hippocratic Epidemics constitute one of the most detailed studies of Hippocratic medicine from Antiquity. The Arabic translation of the Commentaries by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. c. 873) is of crucial importance because it preserves
Pormann, Peter E.
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The demise of bloodletting

open access: yesJournal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2014
Bloodletting was a practice favoured by doctors and barber-surgeons for many centuries, and is now, perhaps surprisingly, still employed for a few specific indications. The effectiveness of bloodletting for treating diseases such as pneumonia was convincingly challenged in the mid-nineteenth century, but medical conservatism ensured the practice ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Sanguine

open access: yes, 2012
Health care in America: even my doctor lines up for the community multiphasic blood screening, rather than going to the regular lab. It costs thirty-two dollars for the usual screen, plus ten dollars for thyroid, or PSA or B-12. The blood-drawing used to
Rhett, Kathryn
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Early Evidence of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing at Kichpanha, Belize [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
Archaeological research, conducted intermittently at Kichpanha, Belize, from 1973 to 1983 was primarily limited to surveying and mapping. During the 1985 season, test excavations initiated in the 1983 season were continued (Gibson 1985a).
Finamore, Daniel R.   +2 more
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