Physicians and family members alike have long been curious about the historical origins of Huntington’s disease. Despite the fact that families with “hereditary chorea” were described in medical literature for the first time in the 1840s, most authors agree that the genetic abnormality and most likely the panoply of symptoms we know today as Huntington’s disease were present centuries earlier i...

The art of sword swallowing has very long historical roots and was known to the ancient Greeks; in later times, this form, especially from 16th 18th centuries, developed Japan, being brought there by Chinese neighbors. swallowers were first accomplices development esophagoscopy, as they prompted doctors think about possibility inserting metal tubes into esophagus for diagnosis therapy.

During the 16th and 17th centuries maize, a New World cereal defi cient in niacin (vitamin B3 or PP), replaced cereals of higher economic and nutritional value in the staple diet of the poor in Southern Europe. As a consequence of quasi-monophagic maize porridge-based diets pellagra, a lethal new disease due to severe niacin defi ciency, spread dramatically among the Southern European peasantry...

this paper examines the characteristics of the turbulent 17th and 18th centuries of japan, investigating their impacts on the japanese dramatic literature. in particular, we examine the impact of the tokugawa society on the dramatic literature of japan, according to the plays suicide of the lovers in sonezaki, and kanadehon chushingura. these two examples reveal the entrance of a typical samura...

The article deals with the participation of "state barons" (Herrenstand-, Freiherrenstand) in representative assemblies German Reich and Habsburg Hereditary Countries, which collectively constituted Holy Roman Empire Nation period 16th-18th centuries. Similarly, barons offices most important bodies has been evaluated including such instances as Chamber Court, Reichs Court Council, on other hand...

SUMMARY: A discussion of trade in the North Atlantic during 17th and 18th centuries is explored through movement commodities from mainland Europe to Iceland, specifically pottery vessels. The paper reconstructs journeys three cooking pots different places northern Germany Denmark along way, attempts situate these within social cultural contexts which they pass. In tracking object itineraries, i...