The bezoar stone: a princely antidote, the Távora Sequeira Pinto Collection-Oporto.

Prediction of the mechanical behavior of the Oporto granite using Data Mining techniques

The determination of mechanical properties of granitic rocks has a great importance to solve many engineering problems. Tunnelling, mining and excavations are some examples of these problems. The purpose of this paper is to apply Data Mining (DM) techniques such as multiple regressions (MR), artificial neural networks (ANN) and support vector machines (SVM), to predict the uniaxial compressive ...

The Effects of Bezoar on the Echis carinatus Snake Venom Poisoning in Mice

The Bezoar, a dense material found in the stomach of wild goat, is widely used against various diseases including snakebite in traditional medicine among the southeast tribes of Iran. This study was performed to evaluate the Bezoar effect on experimental mice receiving 2% and 10% concentrations of natural crude of Echis carinatus snake venom. Various doses of Bezoar (6, 50, 100 & 200 mg/kg/i....

The giant in the stomach – trichobezoar

Bezoar is an uncommon phenomenon which results from the accumulation of ingested foreign material such as hair, fur or fiber which can easily lead to formation of a large mass in the intestinal tract [1]. Bezoars were once prized as magical items with protective properties. The word “bezoar” comes from the Persian for “protection from poison”. People would place bezoars in their drinking glasse...

Trichobezoar (hairball) causing acute intestinal obstruction in a child aged three years.

Although not uncommon in mental hospital patients, a trichobezoar in a child is not often seen. Besides being rare, the condition is of considerable historical interest. The word 'bezoar,' derived from Arabic ' badzehr' or from Persian 'pad zahr,' signifying counter-poison or antidote, is the term applied to masses found in the intestine and stomach of both men and animals. Bezoars have been kn...

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