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Plants, Spirits, And Healing
Number of Words: 546 / Number of Pages: 2
... and are
used to protect the wearer from evil and illness. Some can be made of
various items including teeth or bone. Masks are used in ceremonies. The
medicine man usually wears the mask to inspire fear and belief. Australian
Aboriginal groups have initiation rites, that can involve pulling teeth,
bloodletting, or burning and scaring of the body. Then, ointments and
balms made from herbs and other substances would be applied after the
ceremony.
The shaman have different uses for different kinds of plants. The
squawroot also know as the multipurpose plant is a traditional remedy in
some North ...
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Bubonic Plague
Number of Words: 309 / Number of Pages: 2
... thigh, groin, and armpits.
This stage is the most painful. Blood vessels break and later the dry blood
turns black underneath your skin.
The treatment for the plague is a vaccine that lasts 6 months. You can use the
preferred vaccine Streptomycin, or gentamicin, teracyclines, or chloramphenicol
are all good substitutes. The treatment must start within 15 hours of the first
symptom of death is inevitable.
Some special characteristics of this disease are you can be any age to contract
it, it is most common is unsanitary condition, or where there are an abundance
of rodents and if untreated deat ...
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Tumours
Number of Words: 659 / Number of Pages: 3
... which develop in the
breast, colon, lung, and other organs, contain an inner core with high
pressure zones that compress and collapse blood vessels, often preventing
the penetration of blood-borne cancer treatments. It spreads to distant
sites by the breaking off of malignant cells, which move through the blood
and lymphatic systems, attach themselves, and begin to grow as new colonies.
Malignant tumours are diagnosed by examination of their vascularity,
shapes, forms of cells division, and differentiation. More than a hundred
different types have been identified in humans. In general, those de ...
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Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain
Number of Words: 2750 / Number of Pages: 10
... site pain within the first
forty-eight hours after surgery?". The independent variable is therapeutic
touch. The dependant variable is decreasing surgical site pain. The population
to be studied will be patients on a thirty bed medical-surgical floor of a Lake
Charles hospital. Fifty surgical patients will be studied over a four week
period. The patients will be randomly selected to avoid any bias by the
researcher.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROBLEM
"... therapeutic touch is a nursing intervention that has the potential
for eliciting a state of physiological relaxation in patients and for dec ...
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Number of Words: 246 / Number of Pages: 1
... that cigarettes cause lung cancer there was a tremendous movement to make
cigarettes illegal. Now the debate is on environmental tobacco smoke also known
as secondhand smoke, passive smoking, and sidestream smoke. The worry is that
when non-smokers are exposed to secondhand smoke they face the same health
hazards as smokers.
Tobacco smoke contains more than forty known carcinogens. Sidestream
smoke carries these carcinogens into the air (Sussman 12). According to
scientific studies tobacco smoke contains four thousand chemicals, and at least
sixty are known to cause cancer. Carbon monoxide i ...
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Color Blindless
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... "typical" monochro-matism.
Another, more common, form of color blindness is called dichromatism.
People with di-chromatic vision tend to confuse red, green, and gray, but can
easily distinguish blue and yellow. Some cannot even see the longest wavelengths
of light -- the red end. Though it is rare, others cannot see the short
wavelengths, near the violet end. These people tend to confuse blue, yellow,
and gray, but not red and green.
Normal vision is called trichromatism. Most color blind people have a
version of trichro-matism called anomalous trichromatism. People with this
condition can see t ...
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Number of Words: 1001 / Number of Pages: 4
... had never
missed a game and had a life time batting average of .340. However, the
symptoms of ALS emerged in 1938, and in 1939, he was diagnosed with the disease.
At that time doctors knew little to nothing about the disease and the only
suggested treatment was the untested vitamin E. So Gehrig ate a daily plate
full of garden grass, until June 2, 1941 when he died at the age of 37.
ALS affects approximately 1 out of every 100,000 people. In the United
States there are around 30,000 Americans affected by ALS, and 3,000 more are
diagnosed with the disease each year, with men being affected slightl ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... have sex, and she should be responsible enough to suffer the consequences. For example, Carrie is very promiscuous and finds out that she is pregnant, so she goes and has an . Next time Carrie finds out that she has HIV, well she can't pay someone to get rid of her problem so she has to deal with it. Why shouldn't she have to deal with the fact of being pregnant? There are many other options to killing an innocent human: adoption or raising the child with the help of parents. However, some girls are forced to have an .
No matter the reason someone has for an , it is still cruel. Some wom ...
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Down Syndrome: An Informative Essay
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... is cause by a cell abnormality during meiosis, it
can not really be proven that Down Syndrome is hereditary. A perfectly healthy
mother could have a Down Syndrome baby even though there was never any sign of
the disorder in her pedigree. There are however, three different kinds of Down
Syndrome. 95% of Down Syndrome babies have Trisomy 21. This is the presence of
extra genetic material on the 21st pair of chromosomes. Around 4% have what is
called Translocation. This is where the extra chromosome 21 decided to break
away and attach itself to another chromosome. The last 1% is made up of those
with ...
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HIV
Number of Words: 1876 / Number of Pages: 7
... known that the viruses have been transmitted
through sexually, occasionally through blood and organ transplants.
The acronym HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, where as the
acronym AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. When someone has
contracted the HIV virus in almost all cases it produces the AIDS virus.
Apparently there has been a controversy that HIV really isn't the cause of the
AIDS virus, but careful research has proved without a doubt that it is the cause.
Socially the production of the viruses has caused a lot of hate, prejudice,
racism and above all homophobia.
M ...
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