Bloodletting

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The 1950’s and 1960’s transported the idea of urban renewal to fruition. The passage of the 1949 Housing Act, The Housing Act of 1954, and The 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act demolished numerous neighborhoods of historical and social value throughout the United States. Jane Jacobs, a woman with no political or neighborhood planning background began fighting against the bulldozer mentality in New York City that sought to construct highways and skyscrapers, which displaced many individuals,…

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Homeopathy being about two hundred years old is a relatively new form of complementary and alternative medicine. Homeopathy is based on the principle that like cures like, which argues that if a certain substance given to a healthy individual causes the same symptoms as a disease then it will also cure that disease in ill individuals. Additionally, these illnesses are believed to be caused by nonphysical disease entities called miasms. Misasms are what homeopaths believe to be the root causes of…

The human brain is a marvel unrivaled by anything else on this planet. It holds a lifetime 's worth of thoughts, memories, and emotions. Nothing is more unique; it is what makes every person who he is. For most, it is a finely-tuned machine, never held up by more than the slightest glitch. But for an unfortunate few, it is a debilitating mess of chaos. As a schizophrenic, thoughts become disorganized; memories disappear, replaced by fallacies, and emotions blur together until they practically…

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notable physicians at the time of the black death. Their published list of recommendations albeit slightly different, contained major similarities that were to reappear in all major scientific outlets of the time. They strongly advocate the use of bloodletting which was the process of drawing one’s blood to maintain an adequate balance of humors. This was based on the premise that a human body was made of different humors that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health. Furthermore, they…

Human sacrifice was a common practice in early latin american cultures. Many such cultures believed that these sacrifices brought about good luck and pleased their gods, thus the Aztecs emulated these previous and contemporary civilizations, yet far surpassed them in both the number of victims and the brutality which they inflicted upon them. All written evidence of human sacrifice by the Aztecs was written by the Spanish conquistadors, who greatly exaggerated all accounts of human sacrifice to…