Avoiding The Plague: Medical Advice from the 14th Century.
Years ago I added a book to my medical library entitled Hecker’s Epidemics of the Middle Ages. Published in 1843, the pages are yellow and fragile, but the COVID-19 Epidemic spurred me to open it up and peruse the contents for lessons relevant to today’s events. Among the more fascinating topics is a section on physician recommendations for avoiding contagion.
The Black Death was a global epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the world of the Middle Ages, killing one third of all the people in Europe. In the 14th Century the esteemed medical faculty of Paris were commissioned to deliver their opinion to furni...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 18, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Art & Medicine Featured Medical Articles Medical History Source Type: blogs
Avoiding The Plague: Medical Advice from the 14th Century.
The Black Death was a global epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the world of the Middle Ages, killing one third of all the people in Europe. In the 14th Century the esteemed medical faculty of Paris were commissioned to deliver their opinion to furnish recommendations to prevent its transmission. This was before the knowledge of micro-organisms, and medical advice revolves around modifying the air and the diet, as well as personal activity, colonic cleansing and chastity. Here are some highlights, from the reference entitled Hecker’s Epidemics of the Middle Ages:
[K]indle a large fire of vine-wood, green laur...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 18, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Art & Medicine Featured Medical Articles Medical History Source Type: blogs
… of all the Leps I ’ ve photographed
My Mothematics Gallery can be found on my Imaging Storm photography site along with other invertebrates, flora and fauna, etc. I’ve written about several of the species I’ve seen for various outlets, but haven’t yet got around to adding all of the links to this list #bearwith
Moths
Aethes francilana/beatricella (Walsingham, 1898/Fabricius, 1794)
Agapeta hamana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agonopterix heracliana-ciliella agg NFM 2020
Agonopterix purpurea (Haworth, 1811) NFM 2021 (MYO lure)
Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa, Linnaeus, 1758)
Arches, Buff (Habrosyne pyritoides, Hufnagel, 1766)
Arches, Dark (Apamea m...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 10, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
The brand new moths of 2020
I have counted well over 300 species of moth in our garden this year(almost 9000 specimens), mostly at night, although there were one or two dayflyers (excluding butterflies, which are moths but are not usually listed as such). That is a small fraction of the total number of moth species listed in the British Isles which tallies at 2500 or thereabouts, 180,000 species of lepidoptera globally.
Of those 300 or so species about 30 were new to me having not ticked them in the garden before. Here’s a small selection starting with the rarest, the Clifden Nonpareil, a moth that was extinct in The British Isles by the middle...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 7, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
The “ Green Fairy ” moth – The Wormwood
If you’ve been with me on Instagram for a while, you might be thinking, oh I know this one, he posted the quiffy little beggar a few weeks ago.
Well, you’re close, but no cigar, the previous lepidopteral quiffmeister was The Shark, this is the closely related Wormwood, Cucullia absinthii.
As its name would suggest its larvae feed on wormwood (and mugwort) and the adults have evolved to resemble the seedhead of that type of plant. You’ll notice the “absinthii” of its scientific binomial, which refers to the wormwood plants scientific name Artemisia absinthium, which is used to make the Green F...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 8, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Ada Lovelace Day: Nature Research editors celebrate leaders in their fields – Part 2
You can read part 1 of this blog series here and read more about Ada Lovelace’s legacy here.
Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, Associate Editor, Nature Communications
Brenda Milner was 89 years old when I started my PhD at McGill University, and now, ten years later, she is still actively contributing to our understanding of how the human brain shapes cognition.
This field, neuropsychology, became widely recognized mainly because of Brenda’s work with a patient known as HM. Due temporal lobe surgery (to cure his epilepsy), HM had lost the ability to convert short-term memories into long-term memories.
Through her ex...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - October 12, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Publishing Ada Lovelace Day Source Type: blogs
Nature’s Medicine Cabinet
More than 70 percent of new drugs approved within the past 30 years originated from trees, sea creatures and other organisms that produce substances they need to survive. Since ancient times, people have been searching the Earth for natural products to use—from poison dart frog venom for hunting to herbs for healing wounds. Today, scientists are modifying them in the laboratory for our medicinal use. Here’s a peek at some of the products in nature’s medicine cabinet.
A protein called draculin found in the saliva of vampire bats is in the last phases of clinical testing as a clot-buster for stroke patients. Vampire b...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 14, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Chemistry and Biochemistry Pharmacology Cool Creatures Diseases Medicines Natural Products Source Type: blogs
I love my green fairy
I LOVE MY GREEN FAIRYI use to go to Starbucks and order a Venti triple expresso. A new drink called Four Loko, has added some flavoring of taurine, guarine, wormwood (absinthe), and 6 packages of sugar. It is topped off with 6 cans of compressed beer (12% alcohol) and I now have a great college drink guaranteed to put me in LaLa land, or possibly the ER. If I drank on an empty stomach, my blood alcohol would read around 0.40 the low end, approaching death. I can get all this for only $3 at any convenient store. If I want to get a Four Loko light, (9% alcohol...
Source: Dr. Needles Medical Blogs - November 1, 2010 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Tags: I LOVE MY GREEN FAIRY Source Type: blogs
