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Training the "clinical eye". Rubens' Three Graces: how many pathologies? [PDF]
Art can serve as a powerful resource for medical students to both train the so called “clinical eye” and to better understand disease [1]. Herein a paleopathological analysis is performed on one of Ruben’s final artworks, “The Three Graces” (1630 ...
Giuseppe Familiari +3 more
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Abstract KNM‐ER 64061 is a partial skeleton from the upper Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation (2.02–2.06 Ma) associated taphonomically and geochemically with a nearly complete mandibular dentition (KNM‐ER 64060) attributed to Homo habilis.
Frederick E. Grine +8 more
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Morphological Characteristics of the Pre-Columbian Dentition I. Shovel-Shaped Incisors, Carabelli\u27s Cusp, and Protostylid [PDF]
This Peruvian-American cooperative study of paleopathology of the pre-Columbian Peruvian cultures of Southern Peru began in 1971. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the medical and dental health status of these cultures which date from 600 BC to ...
Allison, Marvin J. +3 more
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An Investigation of Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna in a Modern Anatomical Body Donor Population
ABSTRACT This research sought to examine the prevalence and severity of hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) in the Chicagoland anatomical body donor population. The study further aimed to elucidate potential demographic risk factors for HFI, including sex, age at death, and structural vulnerability index (SVI), as well as any common comorbidities, as ...
Amy C. Beresheim, Amanda Hall
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Paleopathology contributes to the knowledge of health and disease in past populations. In the case of tuberculosis, paleopathological research contributes to a better understanding of the antiquity and spread of the disease around the globe, as well as ...
Ana Luísa Santos, Vítor M. J. Matos
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ABSTRACT Prior research has documented treponematosis at a single site in Mainland Southeast Asia from northern Vietnam dated to the early agricultural transition (~4000–3500 bp). To date, no other cases in Southeast Asia's prehistory have been identified.
Melandri Vlok +15 more
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The antiquity of hydrocephalus: the first full palaeo-neuropathological description [PDF]
The Pathology Museum of the University of Florence houses a rich collection of anatomical specimens and over a hundred waxworks portraying pathological conditions occurring in the nineteenth century, when the museum was established.
Galassi, F. M. +7 more
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Ecologies of Risk: Malaria and Settler Landscape Transformation in 19th‐Century Ontario
ABSTRACT Objectives This study examines how settler‐driven environmental change shaped malaria transmission and mortality in 19th‐century southern Ontario. It aimed to understand the biosocial and ecological conditions that sustained endemic malaria in a temperate, colonial context.
Amanda Cooke, Megan B. Brickley
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Health Problems of Ancient Anatolian Populations
One of the most significant study fields of anthropology is paleopathology. In paleopathology studies, effects of past diseases on skeleton system are evaluated in different categories by taking their etiologies into consideration.
Mehmet SAĞIR, Seçil SAĞIR
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Skeletal Evidence for Leprosy in India by the Second Millenium B.C. [PDF]
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by _Mycobacterium leprae_ that affects almost 500,000 people worldwide^1^. The timing of first infection, geographic origin, and pattern of transmission of the disease are unknown^1-3^.
Gwendolyn Robbins +6 more
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