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- 2521: AIDS
- ... greatly weakened) or cancers. In the early 1980s deaths by opportunistic infections, previously observed mainly in organ transplant recipients receiving therapy to suppress their immune responses, were recognized in otherwise healthy homosexual men. In 1983, French cancer specialist Luc Montagnier and scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human retrovirusa special type of virus that reproduces differently from other virusesfrom the lymph ...
- 2522: Psychoanalysis
- ... as a numbness or paralysis of a limb or a loss of voice or a blindness-- could be caused by unconscious wishes or forgotten memories. (Hysteria is now commonly referred to as conversion disorder.) The French neurologist Jean Martin CHARCOT tried to rid the mind of undesirable thoughts through hypnotic suggestion, but without lasting success. Josef Breuer, a Viennese physician, achieved better results by letting Anna O., a young woman patient ...
- 2523: Your Brain
- ... their temperature - by imaging they are sunbathing or in a warm bath - they can control their circulatory system and terefore the migrane." Knowledge of our two-sided brain began in the mid-1800's when French neurologist Paul Broca discovered that injuries to the left side of the brain resulted in the loss of speech. Damage to the right side, however did not. Doctors speculated over what this meant. Was the ...
- 2524: Two Brains?
- ... their temperature - by imaging they are sunbathing or in a warm bath - they can control their circulatory system and terefore the migrane." Knowledge of our two-sided brain began in the mid-1800's when French neurologist Paul Broca discovered that injuries to the left side of the brain resulted in the loss of speech. Damage to the right side, however did not. Doctors speculated over what this meant. Was the ...
- 2525: Fungus
- ... with the roots of trees, particularly oaks. They range in size from the size of a pea to as large as an orange. Three countries are famed for their truffles: France, Italy, and England. Mature French truffles are black with white veins; Italian truffles are white; and English truffles are either black or brown, depending on the species. Because truffles grow underground, they are not always easy to locate, so hunting ...
- 2526: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
- ... seen in China and Taiwan.[35] Nonetheless, the manner of the abolition of footbinding was both chaotic and unfair, with sloganeering and excesses of the anti-footbinding movement of the 1920's reminiscent of Cultural Revolution excesses, claiming many families as its victims.[36] Ironically, those with bound feet suffered once again as targets of this anti-footbinding movement by being forced to unbind their feet, an act only marginally less ...
- 2527: Two Sides of The Brain
- ... their temperature - by imaging they are sunbathing or in a warm bath - they can control their circulatory system and terefore the migrane." Knowledge of our two-sided brain began in the mid-1800's when French neurologist Paul Broca discovered that injuries to the left side of the brain resulted in the loss of speech. Damage to the right side, however did not. Doctors speculated over what this meant. Was the ...
- 2528: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... DISCOVERING AIDS The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris in May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a trip to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers at the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of ...
- 2529: AIDS - What's new ?
- ... AIDS is thought to be caused primarily by a virus that invades white blood cells (lymphocytes) - especially T4-lymphocytes or T-helper cells - and certain other body cells, including the brain. In 1983 and 1984, French and U.S. researchers independently identified the virus believed to cause AIDS as an unusual type of slow-acting retrovirus now called "human immunodeficiency virus" or HIV. Like other viruses, HIV is basically a tiny ...
- 2530: God Guided Evolution
- ... proceeded to kill Abel out of jealousy. These entire events can help to plot the course of evolution between the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthal. Obviously this is at the time of the first Agricultural Revolution. The events that the Bible described were quite literal. The Cro-Magnon, having been separated from the Neanderthal for sometime eventually learns how to farm. At the same time the Neanderthal is learning to herd ...
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