The morbidity arising from exposure of workmen to excessively high environmental temperatures is an old problem, extended and accentuated by the development of modern industry. Economic and humanitarian motives have combined, in recent years, to stimulate investigation of the various clinical entities grouped under the general term " heat sickness." Of the many contributions on this problem, th...

The essential oil produced from the seed of Anethum graveolens L. (Umbelliferae) was tested in vitro and in vivo anti-Candida activity. The microbroth dilution method was used in the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC), according to M27-A3 of the guidelines of the Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute (CLSI). And then, efficacy evaluation of essential oil in the prophylaxis and treatmen...

The nitrogen content of sweat seems to vary with changes in the rate of sweating. Observing the total or principal nitrogen of sweat, most investigators (Zuntz and Schumburg (15), Schwenkenbecher and Spitta (11), Riggs (10), Kittsteiner (6), Viale (13), Dill et al. (3), and Araki and Ando (1)) noticed that the nitrogen concentration more or less decreased when the amount of sweat discharged per...

Background & Aim: In recent years using from plant product has been considered wildly as main factor for preventing pathogenic diseases cassed by attacking viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. There are some funguses which could be the factors for affliction of some diseases in human, plants and animals. Plant extracts are those which could act and be used as preventing from these diseases a...