Nanomedicine for prion disease treatment

A properly critical medical humanities is also a historically grounded medical humanities. Such historical grounding requires taking a long cultural perspective, going beyond traditional medical history – typically the history of disease, treatment and practice – to trace the origins and development of the ideas that underpin medicine in its broadest sense – ideas concerning the most fundamental aspects of human existence: health and illness, body and mind, gender and family, care and community. Historical sources can only go so far in illuminating such topics; we must also look to other cultural texts, and in particular literary texts, which, through their imaginative worlds, provide crucial insights into cultural and intellectual attitudes, experience and creativity. Reading from a critical medical humanities perspective requires not only cultural archaeology across a range of discourses, but also putting past and present into conversation, to discover continuities and contrasts with later perspectives. Medical humanities research is illuminated by cultural and literary studies, and also brings to them new ways of seeing; the relation is dynamic. This chapter explores the ways mind, body and affect are constructed and intersect in medieval thought and literature, with a particular focus on how voice-hearing and visionary experience are portrayed and understood.

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Familial benign chronic pemphigus (Hailey-Hailey disease). Treatment with carbon dioxide laser vaporization

Archives of Dermatology ◽

10.1001/archderm.128.5.646 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 128 (5) ◽

pp. 646-648 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

M. Kartamaa

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Carbon Dioxide Laser ◽

Laser Vaporization ◽

Disease Treatment

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Experience in application of red and blue LED light with infra+red component in the ENT disease treatment in children

SOVREMENNAYA PEDIATRIYA ◽

10.15574/sp.2018.89.73 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 73-79

Author(s):

A.L. Kosakovskyi ◽

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S.O. Gulyar ◽

I.A. Kosakivska ◽

N.P. Grushetska ◽

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Keyword(s):

Disease Treatment ◽

Blue Led ◽

Led Light ◽

Infra Red

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Comparative Pharmacognostic, Physicochemical and Phytochemical Studies of Different Samples of Plumbago zeylanica L. Roots

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research ◽

10.25004/ijpsdr.2017.090601 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (06) ◽

Author(s):

Neha Jain ◽

Mohan Lal Kori

Keyword(s):

Phytochemical Analysis ◽

Local Market ◽

Herbal Drugs ◽

Disease Treatment ◽

Organoleptic Evaluation ◽

Plumbago Zeylanica ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Crude Drugs ◽

Phytochemical Studies

The objective of the present study is to evaluate the quality of the marketed and self collected samples of Plumbago zeylanica L. roots on the standardization parameters. This study is planned mainly to confirm changes with quality of drug. Now a day’s more demand of herbal drugs for disease treatment, lack of knowledge of proper methodology and availability are promoting the practices of adulteration and substitution. Thus, the standardization of the plant crude drugs is necessary to maintain their therapeutic efficacy. Comparative studies were carried out to evaluate the standards of P. zeylanica L. with emphasis on organoleptic evaluation, physicochemical and phytochemical analysis. Samples were procured from local market and self collected to determine the qualitative and quantitative variations. The result indicates that self collected sample showed significant results with comparison to marketed sample.

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