The ‘Mole’ in Antiquity

The 'bubu'tu' lesion in antiquity.

1843, aged twenty, after being confined for a fortnight in Kensington House Asylum. He had been admitted with delusions that his bed was on fire, refusing to go to bed at night, and having on one occasion returned home naked. He had struck a keeper at Kensington House, but was normally tractable and good tempered. His attack was said to have begun six months previously, that is at about the sam...

Ruptured Complete Hydatidiform Mole in the Fallopian Tube

Tubal pregnancies are common but presence of hydatidiform mole in tube is a rare entity. A woman of 53years presented with acute abdomen, preoperative pregnancy test was positive and ultrasonography suspected the case as hydatidiform mole in right tube. The patient was treated with total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy as her family was completed. Subsequent histopat...

Synovial fluid in antiquity.

7 Hall N D, Gillan A H. Effects of antirheumatic drugs on protein sulphydryl reactivity of human serum. J Pharm Pharmacol 1979; 31: 676-80. 8 Jellum E, Munthe E, Guldal G, Aaseth J. Fate of the gold and the thiomalate part after intramuscular administration of aurothiomalate to mice. Ann Rheum Dis 1980; 39: 155-8. 9 Munthe E, Guldal G, Jellum E. Increased intracellular glutathione during penici...

Breast cancer in antiquity.

Cancer of the breast, seen by Galen as the commonest cancer of his time, was probably first mentioned by Hippocrates in the 5th century BC. A single case history was described but no specific treatment mentioned. For centuries no further cases were described, until Cato, 2nd century BC, advocated cabbage poultices for all tumours and breast cancer in particular. Aëtius of Amida probably first d...

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