Abstract Many works of art throughout the centuries have not only garnered intrigue, but also debate among physicians relating to a possible medical diagnosis depicted by artist. Representation both anatomy and disease with use votive offerings forms grotesque is well recognized. Such work was particularly prevalent in pieces produced during Hellenistic Age includes statuettes, anatomical repli...

Ashwagandha churnam is an important Ayurvedic medicine obtained form dried roots and stems of withania somnifer(1) (family;- Solanaceae)1, used as a tonic for emaciation of children, debility form old age, rheumatism, hypertension, ulcer, tumor(2), sedative etc. In the present study a validation of Ashwagandha churnam by organoleptic, microscopic characteristics, extractive values total ash aci...

The risk of pressure sores developing in patients admitted with acute conditions was assessed by a simple risk score system based on age, reduced mobility, incontinence, pronounced emaciation, redness over bony prominences, unconsciousness, dehydration, and paralysis in a prospective clinical study. During seven months in 1977, 600 of 3571 patients were classified as at risk. Of these 35 (5.8%)...

Postmortem examination of a free-range white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) revealed severe emaciation, bilateral firm proliferation of the metatarsal diaphyses, and a large intrathoracic mass associated with the accessory lung lobe. Smaller masses were evident in the abomasum, duodenum, omentum, and the capsular surface of the liver. Microscopically, the masses were similar and were diag...

f I ̂ HE following cafe may perhaps be in* JL ftru<5tive to practitioners the firft time they meet with a difficulty of the fame kind. A perlon, much emaciated and enfeebled, and labouring under anafarca and hydrothorax, took, by miftake, from two to four dofes of an infufion of digitalis, more than were ordered for him. He had naufea during a confiderable part of Tuefdav night, which, by 10 o'c...

In March last I tapped a Bhooteah, aged about 28, who was suffering from long-standing anasarca and ascites. His friends insisted on bringing him home at once, and as I knew he would never again face the trocar, which on this occasion he experience I rather unexpectedly, (the Bhooteahs are dreadful cowards) several strands of carbolised fine siik were introduced into the puncture, sufficiently ...

Individuals store energy to balance deficits in natural cycles; however, unnatural events can also lead to unbalanced energy budgets. Entanglement in fishing gear is one example of an unnatural but relatively common circumstance that imposes energetic demands of a similar order of magnitude and duration of life-history events such as migration and pregnancy in large whales. We present two compl...

Cyanosis is a category of condemnation for poultry, as defined by Agriculture and Agrifood Canada. A retrospective study to examine the seasonal patterns and trends for turkey cyanosis condemnation was conducted for the years 1987 to 1995 with the use of condemnation records made available by a single abattoir in Ontario. Condemnation for cyanosis had a significant seasonal pattern, with major ...

Trypanosomes are widely distributed extra erythrocytic protozoan of animals. Wereported a infection from the blood bulldog. An 18 months old male was presentedin Pet Hospital RCVetS, Lahore, Pakistan with history anorexia, emaciation, and pyrexia.Clinical examination dog indicated pale mucosa due increase capillary refill time.Microscopic films confirmed infection. Hematologicalanalysis decreas...