Quinine

The genus Salix, or Willow, consists of around 400 species of trees and shrubs which can be found in nearly every continent, save for Australia and Antarctica. The wood of willows is light and therefore easily molded, and the plants versatility has lead to it developing a variety of applications ranging from basket-weaving to fire-starting. The near ubiquity and widespread applicability of willows has lead to the plant developing symbolic meaning as well, with the plant featuring prominently in…

Honorary Fund that was supported by the affluent residents. The Honorary Fund paid for the working expenses, rent, furniture, coal, gas, dispenser's salary and, (rather surprisingly), quinine and cod liver oil. It also contributed to the midwifery expenses. The Free Members' Fund paid the drugs bill (apart from quinine and cod-liver oil) and the remainder was divided among the medical officers according to the amount of work they did. This meant, of course,…

A muscle tear refers to muscle fibers being damage (Virginia 2013). A tear in the gastrocnemius can cause great risk of injury since the gastrocnemius is located between the knee and ankle joint (Virginia 2013). This can be cause by direct trauma to the calf region or sudden landing on the foot (Medial Head Gastrocnemius 2006). This injury is common in tennis players due to the constant motions of jumping and lunging (Medial Head Gastrocnemius 2006). In the first degree of gastrocnemius tear,…

Racist Petri’s vs. Abolitionists “There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”- Michael Shaara. As the story unfolds, many of the characters had been injured during the Civil War, so battlefield medicine was important on the outcome of the war. Ages ago, battlefield medicine wasn’t advanced as it is today, thus many confederate and union soldiers had died. Not only did the soldiers died, but the crucial people of this war had died as well because of the atrocious…

Entomophobia is an unreasonable fear of insects. Many who have this phobia likely had a traumatic incident in childhood. If you were young and playing in the park and you find a cockroach. When your parent see you they might scream and tell you to stay away. This will stay in your mind a then any time you see a roach you will scream and run away. This is just one of many ways people get this phobia. Being stung by a bee can contribute to the phobia. If you or someone you know is allergic to…

His time of exploration was before the infancy of modern medicine. Before germ theory, sterile techniques, and antibiotics. Hahnemann was unsuccessful in his search for many years until he accidently came across cinchona bark, that contains quinine, the drug used to treat malaria, and developed the symptoms of the disease. This finding led Hahnemann to his first homeopathic law “similia similibus curentur,” or let likes be cured by likes (2013, Science-based Medicine, pg2).In other words,…

Who Deserve the Rainforest? More than 50% of the whole Amazon rainforest is being used on cattle ranchers. The different types of groups in the Amazon rainforest have been arguing about who deserves the rainforest. environmentalist are scientists that help protect and study different species in the rainforest. Even though the rainforest provides the cattle ranchers loggers and settlers with resources environmentalist believe that the Amazon rainforest should be preserved. Environmentalist…

Prairie voles are known for forming long-lasting bonds with a single mate. Because of this feature, it is important to understand how the sex of the social partner could affect a vole’s drinking behavior when two animals are housed together. Hostetler and colleagues (2012) focused on the effect of a partner’s sex on the relationship between social interaction and alcohol consumption in this species. One experiment focused on the effect of social housing on alcohol consumption in male-female…

Venus Bahary June 18, 2015 World History Final Essay The Scientific Revolution was a time in which life saving medicine was produced, scientific ways of thinking were explored and a totally different shift of mindset was brought about. On the other hand, the Industrial Revolution was more about changing the way goods were produced (with new inventions) which changed the way people lived and worked. Despite the fact that both the Scientific Revolution and Industrial Revolution have shaped world…

The Renaissance period assisted in advancing Europe in a variety of ways. In this discussion, the focus will be towards Arthur Erickson’s quote regarding the creative flourishment which occurred through this historical era. There were many important advances in the renaissance era, concerning the medical field. As well as this, innovations drastically transformed humanity forever. made by William Harvey and Paracelsus. An important innovation from The Renaissance was the invention of the…