CONTEXT Nocturnal enuresis has undoubtedly occurred since man's earliest days and the first references are found in the Ebers papyri of 1550 BC. The purpose of this study is to review of Rhazes opinion about diagnosis and treatment of nocturnal enuresis and compare his belief and clinical methods with modern medical practice. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION In the review study we searched all available ...

When Shelley invoked the snake symbolically in this fashion he was hardly doing anything new. The snake's association with death, rebirth and the cycle of nature is practically universal. For the ancient Egyptians the snake was the life of the earth, and there are texts from as early as 2300 B.C. referring to the Quroborus or tail eating serpent, the symbol of the cyclical nature of the cosmos....

glossary of technical terms, a series of extracts of famous medical texts from the Ebers Papyrus to Henri Dunant, a table of contents, an index and six line drawings. The author goes out of his way to point out in his Foreword that the book is not for the expert. On the other hand, it seems to me much too detailed for the school child. The trouble with German scholars is their inability to be c...

A classical circuit-design problem from Ebers and Moll (1954) features a system of nine nonlinear equations in nine variables that is very challenging both for local and global methods. This system was solved globally using an interval method by Ratschek and Rokne (1993) in the box [0, 10]9. Their algorithm had enormous costs (i.e., over 14 months using a network of 30 Sun Sparc-1 workstations)...

Taking advantage of the abundant expression of the small Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded RNAs (EBERs) in latently infected cells, we have analyzed 72 normal and hyperplastic lymph nodes and three tonsils of acute infectious mononucleosis (IM) for the presence and distribution of EBV+ cells using EBER-specific in situ hybridization, in some cases combined with immunohistologic demonstration of ...

ALTHOUGH increasing understanding and successful treatment of hypertension are recent developments, study of the heart and circulation goes back much further, and disorders of the heart and blood vessels are frequently mentioned in ancient writings. The Ebers Papyrus, dated about 500 B.C. mentions the heart which is regarded as the principal vital organ and the Egyptians knew that the pulse cou...

This is the first history of dermatology to appear in the English language, and as such it cannot fail to be of interest to all English-speaking medical men. Like most histories on medical subjects it begins with the Edwin Smith papyrus, as this is the earliest written record extant dealing with medical science, and it is surprising to learn that both in this and in the famous Ebers papyrus con...

A pervasive challenge faced by Canadian health and social service providers is to promote health for low-income families in a proactive and costeffective manner. Families with low incomes experience an array of health and social problems that prevent access to available services, compromise their resilience, and lead to negative family outcomes; for some populations, linkage to the services the...

A classical circuit-design problem from Ebers and Moll 6] features a system of nine nonlinear equations in nine variables that is very challenging both for local and global methods. This system was solved globally using an interval method by Ratschek and Rokne 23] in the box 0; 10] 9. Their algorithm had enormous costs (i.e., over 14 months using a network of 30 Sun Sparc-1 workstations) but th...