Gout

Legalizing Marijuana Practical uses for marijuana, also known as hemp and cannabis, can be traced back as far as 2700 B.C. in China. Additionally, in the world’s oldest pharmacopoeia, also from China, drug recipes for more than 100 ailments including, gout, rheumatism, malaria, and absentmindedness were treated with marijuana. Non-medical uses for marijuana in ancient times included paper and sailcloth making as early as 1000 A.D. in the Arab world and continued to be used as such well into…

Paraphrase and clarification: The source of the fountain of your royal blood has stopped. Your royal father has been murdered. Macduff and Macbeth are telling Malcolm that his father is dead. C. Conclusions: Macbeth used the word blood in an interesting way. Macbeth said “the fountain of your blood is stopp’d” which was a way for him to tell Malcolm his father is dead. General Conclusions for Act 2: 1.) In Act 2 the word blood was used negatively. Like Act 1, when the word blood was used…

front of him but cannot reach or touch it which may suggest his troubled conscience as he contemplating whether or not he should murder the king for his selfish ambition. Macbeth describes the blood that appears to drench “on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, / Which was not so before” (2.1.46-47). Although the floating dagger foreshadows the violence that Macbeth commits, Shakespeare exposes the apprehensive state that Macbeth is in as he contemplates murder. This gives insight on his…

nobody knew as to how one can contract this disease, so Henry jumped to conclusions and kept on continuing marriages with the thought that he was not the problem. Not only did he contract syphilis, but studies have shown that he might have contracted gout which would explain his…

Blood: The Loss of Life, Morality, and Sanity The Tragedy of Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s greatest, as well as shortest, works. The play connects with the political, historical, and philosophical influences of Shakespeare’s time. It is believed that when Macbeth was written in 1606, Shakespeare wanted to appease the then-ruling monarch and his most recent theatrical patron, James VI of Scotland. To please James, Shakespeare wrote the play to focus on James’ Scottish lineage and history,…

Imagery is a figurative device that people successful and creative writers use. It allows them to create an image in the readers’ minds. Imagery helps the readers and audience visualize scenes and emotions. Its easier for people to understand the thought that the writer is spreading through visuals. The brilliant playwright William Shakespeare has skillfully used that tool in many of his plays. He used it through his infamous play Macbeth generously. Macbeth was written in the Elizabethan era,…

for personal defense. In China, the rhino horn is used to make ornaments. Medicinal uses of rhino horn In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the horn, is shaved or ground into a powder and dissolved in boiling water, and used to treat fever, rheumatism, gout, and other disorders. According to the 16th century Chinese pharmacist Li Shi Chen, the horn could also cure snakebites, hallucinations, typhoid, headaches, carbuncles, vomiting, food poisoning, and “devil…

Beethoven had a traumatic childhood even if he grew up surrounded by music. Ludwig van Beethoven was born around December 16, 1770, and baptized on December 17 in Bonn, located in the now-nonexistent Electorate of Cologne (“Ludwig van Beethoven”). His parents, Johann van Beethoven and Maria Magdalena van Beethoven, had to bury two children before Ludwig, and celebrated his successful birth. Maria bore Johann two more sons after Ludwig: Caspar Carl, born in 1774 and Nickolaus Johann, born in 1776…

Diabetes Mellitus type 2 is a common chronic metabolic disorder and of the main causes of death in the United States. The total prevalence of diabetes in the United States is 25.8 million people, of these; 7.0 million have undiagnosed diabetes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). Among adults, diabetes is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, renal failure, blindness, and non-traumatic amputations of lower extremities (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). The…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Since time immemorial microorganisms have played a significant role in the life of mankind owing to the production of the myriad enzymes and secondary compounds that they synthesize (Demain 1981). These micro organism live in a highly diverse environment ranging from hot springs to deep ocean sediments. In the hyper diverse environment where one can find a specialized and unique biological niche is the intracellular space between cells of higher plants acts as suite and…