Practice Corner Apocalypse Soon?
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Apocalypse soon?
When the Lord smote the Philistines with emerods in their secret parts he left it to historians to debate the nature of this lethal affliction. Literally translated, emerods are haemorrhoids, but it is surely unlikely that so hardy a race would have succumbed to an epidemic of piles. Scholarly opinion seems to concur that the emerods were buboes in the groin, one of the agonising manifestations...
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عنوان ژورنال: RadioGraphics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0271-5333,1527-1323
DOI: 10.1148/rg.285085178