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Garum is a fermented fish sauce most commonly associated with the ancient Mediterranean. It was used in the same way that people living in America today use ketchup, which is to say, they put it on all types of foods and meals. Like ketchup, Garum was not reserved for special meals or a luxury good, but consumed by all social classes. It is most notably associated with ancient Rome but the sauce played a huge role in the economics of the Mediterranean and was a big business for many classes of…

Animal Testing Millions of animals die every day as a result to animal testing. Nancy Day said “ animals have been used in research for more than two thousand years”(p.37). Day also said” Galen, who was born in A.D. 129, is considered the founder of experimental physiology”(p.37). Day also said “it takes an average of seven years to test a new drug before the FDA can approve it for the general public”(p.31).Day also said ”critics of animal experimentation say that animals get different forms of…

Animals are murdered, tortured, and abused every day, but it is overlooked “in the name of science.” The use of animals for experimentation can be traced back to the second century. The first person known to have performed these experiments was named Galen, also known as “the father of vivisection.” Although, the first writings were believed to have originated from the Greeks, Aristotle and Erasistratus were among the first to perform on living animals. Animal testing is not a practice we should…

Introduction Cupping therapy was introduced in a mass scale recently during the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, Brazil. Michael Phelps and other Olympic athletes were seen with large circular spots on their bodies. Which then introduced the viewer to cupping therapy. Many of the Olympic commentators gave their opinions on if the therapy worked or not while others sought expert opinions from leading health care practioners. The consensus was to stick with modern western medicine. However, the viewers…

In what ways, and with what success, did one authoritarian or single-party ruler deal with internal opposition? Existing internal political, military, social and economic opposition in Nazi german was dealt with by both legal and illegal means with varying degrees of success. Hitler’s exploitation of situations and use of violence allowed him to successfully destroy threats from other party’s as well as within the NSDAP as well as potential economic opponents. Violence as a method was mostly…

Destin Briggs Lu Jack Chem 4235 11/4/2017 Original Synthesis of Cadmium Nitrate Tetra-Hydrate Cadmium nitrate tetra-Hydrate is an inorganic compound from the family of compounds with the general formula Cd (NO3)2.XH20, where X=4, hence the molecule has four molecules of water of crystallization in its structure. It exists as a salt but in its anhydrous state, it is known to be a volatile substance. It is a colorless substance as are all the compounds in the family of cadmium nitrates. Cadmium…

One of the most influential and prominent times of the American history was the Transcendentalist period. Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1800s. Transcendentalists believed in many aspects, however their central ideas focused on the inherent goodness of both people and nature. Influential Transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederic Henry Hedge. They believed that that the purity of the individual could be corrupted…

synthetic fragrances of perfumes. Fragrances have been around for thousands of years; Avicenna were the first to discover the use of alcohol distillation for the extracting and preserving of scent. According to Dr. Mercola, physicians such as Hippocrates, Galen, and Crito promoted the use of therapeutic scent. Even though being promoted by such physicians, the medical use of aromatherapy was discredited because of the large push for medical drugs. Now we are seeing a large increase in the use of…

a Greek physician and scientist named Aristotle did experiments on living animals. The experiments that Aristotle did was never for medical research. Instead it was to gain knowledge about animals. However in 199 AD another Greek physician named Galen did animal experiments, but only to advance his understanding for science. Also, during the twelfth century there was an Arab physician named Zuhr that did animal experiments for testing surgical procedures. Around the mid-1800s medical research…

Tragedy is an unescapable abyss that not only haunts heroes, but also the common man. In the play “Oedipus the King”, Sophocles tells the story of Oedipus, who strives to defy his prophecy, to ultimately show that fate is predestined and cannot be avoided. Upon hearing his destiny, he ignorantly puts the foretelling aside and suffers from dramatic irony as well as elements of astonishment and great change throughout the play. Thus, “Oedipus the King” is a prime example of a tragedy with the…