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Deficiencies

Casimir Funk (1884-1967) discovered deficiency diseases. He then in early 20th century. He recognized Berberi, scurvy. Rickets and pellagra. Later found vitamins and invented supplementation therapy. Early 20th century we know our food culture was not of current type. People…

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Pain

Pain as we know is a very uneasy sensation. This is the word a physician hears the most in his whole career. This was one of the key sensations elicited to torture the enemies in captivity after war for centuries….

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Cancer Day

Cancer is one among the oldest incurable diseases known to man. It remains the same. The reason or cause is still unknown. Scientists are still searching in air. Like diabetes though the cause is unknown treatment is absolutely available. Common…

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Side effect

This is no at all a new term for us.  Any chemical or practice given internally or externally for a short or long time in a small or larger dose which may cause signs and symptoms which represent minor or…

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Disease 2

Stretch out one of your arms. Make sure that you got no injuries. Now ask your friend to hit on your hand with some heavy thing. After getting the hit just look at the spot. You feel the pain. Harder…

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‘Science of exceptions’ can’t be science

Asset of scientific medicine are the learned people all around the world. Unlearning and relearning is much difficult for them. Not the doctors but them are the torch bearers of scientific medicine. One software engineer says that it is quite…

Philosophy of Health

Philosophy in ‘Treatment’

Any one could be annoyed in this modern era if he hear the word philosophy added to health related discussions. But this term along with the very literal word and idea has got something to do with treatment. A bit…

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Inhalation-an absolute fallacy

Our respiratory tract starting from nostril to lung cannot withstand any external irritant. Solod, liquid or irritating gas. Swimmers know well that water around them while swimming looks and feels good all around but not a drop can go into…

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Treatment

Treatment Again if health remains undefinable how can definition of disease be complete. All diseases what we see are results. Results can be managed to deal with the immediate disability but to deroot disease is almost impossible as all the…

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Disease

In chapter one we tried and to an extend have framed an idea about health. Even now defining health in words is really impossible. Likewise disease also is a fluctuated health status experience. This can only be appreciated by symptoms….

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