Most of the reports on family groups of Huntington's chorea have come from the United States, Britain, the European Continent, and Australia. Sporadic cases, however, have been described in many countries, and in many races-American Negroes (Drewry, 1895), Africans (Gordon, 1935; Klintworth, 1962), Egyptians (El Garem, 1958), Indians (Chuttani, 1957), and Japanese (Kishimoto, 1957). Familial ca...

men was rarely used in ancient Egypt, not until much later in its history, but the name stuck and has remained in popular usage. The Egyptians would never have used the word mummy, it has been suggested3 that their word would have been Sahu, which means, an embalmed cadaver. Long after mummification was abandoned, extracts of mummies were used for all sorts of purposes. The Arab physician Avice...

Many different methods have been devised for the early detection of pregnancy [5]. From the time of the Ancient Egyptians, inspection of the urine has been a popular place to start. However, it was not until the discovery of hormones [6] in the early twentieth century that the development of truly reliable pregnancy [5] tests occurred. Prior to 1978, when the first home pregnancy [5] tests beca...

A total of 26 554 Egyptians was ascertained to study the incidence of consanguineous marriages. They were of different ages, different socioeconomic standards, and from different areas. There were 7646 from urban areas, 11 280 from suburban areas, and 7628 from rural areas. The incidence of consanguineous matings in the general population was found to be 28.96% with an average inbreeding coeffi...

The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) alterations and metabolic dysfunctions in patients with presbyacusis, and to discover correlations between presbyacusis and the degree of hearing loss and mitochondrial damage. Seventy patients with presbyacusis were examined, including 40 Egyptian patients and 30 Italian patients. Forty eight normal subjects wer...

The fundamental concept of simulation dates back thousands of years to the ancient Egyptians and the famous Chinese war strategist SunTzu. Notwithstanding these initial attempts at replicating ancient battlefields, current day machine-based modelling and simulation (M&S) found its roots in the early 20 Century. During this dawning era, the majority of M&S efforts were carried out in isolation. ...

An Egyptian fraction is a sum of reciprocals of distinct positive integers, so called because the ancient Egyptians represented rational numbers in that way. In an earlier paper, the author [8] showed that every positive rational number r has Egyptian fraction representations where the number of terms is of the same order of magnitude as the largest denominator. More precisely, there exists a p...