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- 981: Marijuana As Medicine?
- ... purposes, and should be legally available for doctors to prescribe to their patients, judging by their therapeutic need for it. The oldest known medical use of marijuana dates back to the Emperor Shen-Nung in China in the 28th century BC. He prescribed it for such things as constipation, malaria, and absentmindedness. (Medical Marijuana, www.normal.com) Marijuana was also commonly used medically in, but not restricted to ancient Egypt to ...
- 982: The Effects Of Marijuana Use
- ... doctors say marijuana is probably injuries to the lungs in much the same way as tobacco. Last of all, cannabis or marijuana has been used as a folk remedy for centuries in central Asia and China as early as 3000 BC and has established a place in the medical field after experimental work was done with the active ingredient delta-0-tetraydrocannadinol (THC). Except for limited medical purposes cultivating weed is ...
- 983: The Physical and Psychological Effects of Marijuana
- ... effects on humans. Marijuana, or cannabis sativa, is a preparation of the crushed flowers and buds of female hemp plant. The existence of the plant has been reported as early as 1500-1200 BC. in China, and cannabis has been described as an analgesic as early as 200 AD . Since then, an overwhelming number of studies have attempted to explain the physical and psychological effects of cannabis on humans. Physical Effects ...
- 984: Assisted Suicide
- ... believe in this act of dying. Certain cultures believe that they have the right to end a person's life, only if the person is suffering with an illness that will only get worse. "In China and some parts of India, it is an ancient custom to drown newborn girls if they think they will live a useless life." The Dutch believe in the act of assisted suicide as many other ...
- 985: Plagues and Diseases
- ... Death. It took Europe by storm from approximately 1345 to 1361. It would also make small comebacks throughout the next 400 years, but never like it did the first time. It also reached into Africa, China, Russia, and the Scandinavian countries. It was truly a worldwide pandemic. But, it has a secondary effect that not many people are aware of. The colonies of Greenland, settled by the Vikings, were stricken by ...
- 986: Cancer
- ... drastically since the spread of cigarette smoking in growing countries. Stomach cancer is the second leading form of cancer in men, after lung cancer. Another on the increase, for women, is breast cancer, particularly in China and Japan. The fourth on the list is colon and rectum cancer, which occurs mostly in older people. In the United States more than one-fifth of the deaths in the early '90s was caused ...
- 987: Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One?
- ... countries, which have no legislation or infrastructure to ensure their safe use. . . "(Hileman 8). Further proof that this is taking place is the speed with which transgenic crops are being commercially produced in these nations. China, for example, has transgenic vegetables engineered for resistance to viruses that have been on the market for about 18 months. Similar transgenic crops in the United States are still in the testing and approval stages ...
- 988: The Plague
- ... a secondary result of untreated bubonic or pneumonic plague. A LITTLE HISTORY As mentioned before, the most known incidence of bubonic plague was in 14th century Europe. In 1346 reports of a terrible pestilence in China, spreading through Mesopotamia and Asia Minor had reached Europe, but caused no concern until two years later. In January of 1348 the plague had reached Marseille in France and Tunis in Africa. By the end ...
- 989: Malaria
- ... especially endemic in Africa. In 1990 eighty percent of all reported cases were in Africa, while the remainder of most cases came from nine countries: India, Brazil, Afghanistan, Sri-Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China. Globally, the disease circulates in almost one hundred countries causing up to 1,500,000 deaths annually (Cann, 1996). Because there is no definite cure for malaria, scientists are trying their hardest to contain the ...
- 990: Cancer in American
- ... risen rapidly, because of the spread of cigarette smoking in developing countries, to become the leading fatal cancer in the world today. Also on the increase is the third- greatest killer, breast cancer, particularly in China and Japan. The fourth on the list is colon or rectum cancer, a disease that mainly strikes the elderly. In the United States in the mid-1980s, more than one-fifth of all deaths were ...
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