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Tospovirus – Diagnosis

Early symptoms of infection are difficult to diagnose. In young infected plants the characteristic symptoms consist of inward cupping of leaves and leaves that develop a bronze cast followed by dark spots. As the infection progresses additional symptoms develop which include dark streaks on the main stem and wilting of the top portion of the [...]

Snooky Pryor – Introduction

Snooky Pryor (September 15, 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American blues harp player. He claimed to have pioneered the now-common method of playing amplified harmonica by cupping a small microphone in his hands along with the harmonica, although on his earliest records in the late 1940s he did not utilize this method. Adapted [...]

Martin Delany – Pittsburgh

On arrival in Pittsburgh, Delany became a student of the Rev. Lewis Woodson of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wylie Street. Shortly after, he began attending Jefferson College, where he was taught classics, Latin and Greek by Molliston M. Clark. During a cholera epidemic in 1833, Delany became apprenticed to Dr. Andrew N. [...]

Keratoprosthesis – Patient selection

* Vision should not be better than 20/400. * Blink and tear mechanisms should be reasonably intact. * Retina should be in place and there should not be extreme optic nerve cupping. * Opposite eye has reduced vision. * Intact nasal light projection. * Consider shunt if patient is suffering from advanced stage of glaucoma. [...]

Princess Caraboo – Biography

On 3 April 1817, a cobbler in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England, met an apparently disoriented young woman with exotic clothes who was speaking a language no one could understand. The cobbler’s wife took her to the Overseer of the Poor who left her in the hands of the local county magistrate, Samuel Worrall, who lived [...]

Disease in colonial America – Physicians

In Colonial America, governors, churchmen, and educators administered medical care to the residents in their village or town. Each learned the art of medicine and healing through apprenticeship, learning from an instructor at a patient’s bedside. He would help his instructor by doing various duties such as the housework. In Colonial America, there was no [...]

Hijama – Recent Advances and Studies

An investigation into the effect of Cupping Therapy (Hijama) as a treatment for Anterior Knee Pain and its potential role in Health Promotion. The Internet Journal of Alternative Medicine™ ISSN: 1540-2584 The efficacy of wet-cupping in the treatment of tension and migraine headache. Abstract Wet-cupping is an ancient medical technique still used in several contemporary [...]

Wood flooring – Solid wood manufacturing

Solid wood can be cut in three styles: flat-sawn, quarter-sawn, and rift-sawn. However, because only one side of the wood is visible on flooring, “quarter-sawn” and “rift-sawn” will have the same appearance. Many solid woods come with “absorption strips” – grooves cut into the back of the wood that run the length of each plank. [...]

Bloodletting – In the 2nd millennium

The benefits of bloodletting only began to be seriously questioned in the second half of the 1800s. While many physicians in England at the time had lost faith in the general value of bloodletting, some still considered it beneficial in some circumstances, for instance to “clear out” infected or weakened blood or its ability to [...]

Barber – History

The barber’s trade is an ancient one. Razors have been found among relics of the Bronze Age (circa 3500 BC) in Egypt. Shaving, either of the head or face, was not always a voluntary act, for it has been enforced by law in England and elsewhere. Before the Macedonian conquest brought the custom of clean [...]

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