Pellagra: an ancient disease in a modern world

Iodine deficiency: an ancient problem in a modern world.

Iodine has long been known as an essential element for humans, and for mammals in general, where it is concentrated in the thyroid gland, being a vital component of the thyroid hormone thyroxine. Deprivation of iodine results in a series of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the most commonly recognized of which is endemic goiter, a condition where the thyroid gland becomes enlarged in an attem...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Hemorrhoids: modern remedies for an ancient disease.

By Herman Villalba, MD Maher A Abbas, MD, FACS, FASCRS Introduction A patient arrives at your office with a chief complaint of hemorrhoids. Is it really hemorrhoids, or is it something else? How are hemorrhoids best treated? And when should you send the patient to see a surgeon? Hemorrhoids have plagued humankind since ancient times and might have even influenced world history. The emperor of F...

Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World

Crohn's disease: ancient and modern.

In 1932, Crohn, Ginzburg and Oppenheimer published their classical paper on regional ileitis in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).' Since then, it has been a popular pastime to document the many case descriptions ofCrohn's disease whch were published beforehand.2-4 Most of these were brief reports of small numbers.5-7 The most thorough studies were those of Moschowitz and W...