the man was not content with scrubbing his teeth and tonguo with his dantuni, but was in the habit of thrusting it back into the pharynx, in order to clear away any phlegm that might have collected there, and to excite the act of coughing to "blear his larynx. The wood generally preferred by natives for cleaning their teeth is the root of the pecloo (salvadora), or branches of the babar, or nee...

In congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (cNDI), polyuria and polydipsia are present from birth, as the kidney is unable to concentrate urine despite elevated concentrations of the antidiuretic hormone arginine-vasopressin.1 In ancient Greek medicine, physiology was, needless, to say, an as yet fairly undeveloped specialty among medico-philosophers, based as they were mainly on the Hippocra...

Methods The draft version was tested on a sample of 430 patients with angina, 178 (41.40%) were diagnosed with phlegm syndrome (PS). The Settle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) was tested as well as an indicator of concurrent validity. A subset of patients (n=86) completed the questionnaire again 24 hours later to confirm test-retest reliability. The items were reduced by accessing item property. Rel...

Data on respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function were obtained for 2736 Portland cement plant workers and 755 controls. Personal dust samples contained a geometric mean concentration of 0.57 mg/m3 for respirable dust and 2.90 mg/m3 for total dust. Cement workers and controls had similar prevalences of symptoms, except that 5.4% of the cement workers had dyspnoea compared with 2.7% of the con...

Background: Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), that is, an estimated fetal weight less than ten percent of the standard weight for gestational age, is one of the important challenges in modern obstetrics, the management and treatment of which is cause-dependent. Given the lack of an accepted treatment for these patients, this study aimed to introduce a treatment commonly u...