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» The Ear We Cannot See
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/26/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Several years ago a man examined the ears of hundreds of children in Europe and found that about one quarter of them were a little deaf.

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» The Ear That We Can See
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/25/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

There are men and women on islands in the Pacific Ocean who look as if they thought their ears were made on purpose to hold flowers or tobacco pipes.

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» Animals and Alcohol—Part II
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/23/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

When the four dogs were two years old an epidemic of dog sickness broke out in Worcester, and it was then that Dr. Hodge hoped to discover...

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» Animals and Alcohol—Part I
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/22/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Sometimes men mix rum and molasses together in a shallow dish and set it where flying insects may see it.

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» Reading, Book Print, and Glasses
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/21/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

If a carpenter is hammering nails into the wall, or if a shoemaker is sewing leather to make a shoe, it does not matter very much how the light falls,...

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» Dangers to the Eyesight
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/21/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

If anyone should ask what you considered the worst thing that could happen to you, you might say blindness.

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» Habits of Sleeping
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/21/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Next door to where I am sitting and writing there is a little girl seven years old.

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» Some Rules About Sleeping
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/21/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Sleep is so important that when a man is ill the doctor often tells the nurse not to waken him even for his medicine or his food.

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» Why and How We Need to Sleep
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/16/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

Once in a great battle on the river Nile some British soldiers had to be awake so long and work so hard by day and by night that at last some of them fell asleep on the deck of the ship in the midst of the fighting.

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» Health and Safety: Dust and Cleanliness
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/16/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

When the wind blows, clouds of dust whirl down the street, and it seems as if you could hardly draw your breath.

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» Microbes and Keeping Clean
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/16/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Last winter, in the town where I was staying, there were large red cards fastened to the houses on almost every street.

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» A Little Lesson About Little Things: Microbes
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/16/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The dot at the end of this sentence is about as big as a water flea looks when we see him without a microscope.

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» Ventilation of the Building You Are In
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/16/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Your teacher will take you to the basement to-day, if she can, and you will see the furnaces, the hot-air pipes, and the fresh-air shafts,—provided a furnace is used.

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» How to Get Fresh Air: Drafts
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/16/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Some people think that we do not need to trouble ourselves about ventilating a room when it is large.

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» How the Air Moves and How Much We Need
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/16/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Look at the trees when the wind blows, and see the clouds fly.

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» Tobacco and Pure Air
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/15/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

When I was a child one of the most interesting things every summer was to watch my uncle smoke his bees.

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» Pure Air and Things That Spoil It
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/14/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Sometimes when you get up in the morning you feel happy and rested and good-natured.

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» Health and Safety: Breathing and Pure Air
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 11/13/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Go and watch the baby when he is asleep. See how his chest rises and falls, then rises and falls again.

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» Medical History — The Twentieth Century (Part 2)
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/26/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

In the early years of the twentieth century, Dutch physicist Willem Einthoven adapted to medical practice a newly discovered instrument for measuring minute electric currents.

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» Medical History — The Twentieth Century (Part 1)
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/26/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

In surveying the state of the healing arts today, one is surely impressed by the contrasts with earlier centuries.

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» Medical History — Women in Medicine
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/25/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

Women finally were accepted as full-fledged medical practitioners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but not without a struggle.

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» Medical History — Infection
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/24/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

The firm knowledge that bacteria were causes of diseases and were the transmissible agents responsible for contagion was acquired in the nineteenth century...

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» The Nineteenth Century — The Beginnings of Modern Medicine (Part 2)
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/23/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the principal therapies open to European and American physicians were general regimens of diet...

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» The Nineteenth Century — The Beginnings of Modern Medicine (Part 1)
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/23/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Although the early decades of the nineteenth century were a virtual continuation of medical developments in the previous century, two particular advances...

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» Medical History — The Eighteenth Century
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/22/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

It is often thought that the eighteenth century—with its insistence on a rational and scientific approach to all the historic issues confronting mankind—succeeded in sweeping away forever the tyranny of medieval dogma.

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» Medical History — The Seventeenth Century
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/20/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

Called the "Age of the Scientific Revolution," the seventeenth century represents a major turning point in the history of science.

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» The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries — Art and Science
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/19/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Art and science were allied more closely in the Renaissance than during any other period in the history of man.

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» The Renaissance
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/18/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

Even in the desperate depths of the Middle Ages, social, economic, and cultural events were underway which would burst forth in the mid-fifteenth century in that unparalleled phenomenon known as the Renaissance.

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» Western Europe: The Middle Ages
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/18/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Western Europe emerged from the Dark Ages about the year 1000 in a spirit of enthusiasm, optimism, and cultural unity difficult for us to understand today...

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» Medical Education: The Rise of the Universities
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/17/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

Medical education was truly established in neither the monastic communities of orders such as the Benedictines nor the cathedral schools of the renascent Holy Roman Empire...

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» Medicine under Islam: Arabic Medicine
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/17/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

During the first five centuries of the Christian era, barbarian invasions of the West, recurrent disasters and pestilences, and the zealous anti-Hellenism of the Christian...

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» Medieval Medicine: The Dark Ages
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/17/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The Fall of Rome to the Goths in 476 and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks are often cited as marking the beginning and end of the Middle Ages.

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» Medieval Medicine: The Rise of Christianity
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/16/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The early followers of the crucified Jesus Christ of Nazareth were convinced of the imminence of his Second Coming, the Day of Judgment, and the resulting end of the "here and now."

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» The Greek Physician Galen
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/16/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The Greek physician Galen (c. 129-c. 200) was probably the most influential writer of all time on medical subjects.

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» Medicine in Roman Times
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/15/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

Greek medicine after Hippocrates reached a peak in Alexandria and shortly afterward began to infiltrate Rome, which exercised hegemony over the Greek world after 146 B.C.

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» Medical Sects and the Center at Alexandria
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/15/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

After the time of Hippocrates, groups of teachers and practitioners split up into a variety of separate medical systems, or sects.

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» Hippocrates
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/15/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

Over many centuries, the warrior heroes, the medical craftsmen, and the gymnasts of ancient Greece had accumulated a store of pragmatic information on...

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» Medicine in Hippocratic Times
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/15/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

In the several centuries between the flourishing of Cretan-Mycenaean civilization and the time of the philosopher-scientists...

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» Pre-Hippocratic Medicine: The Philosopher-Scientist
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/15/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

Greek secular, rational medicine, which reached its summit in the time of Hippocrates, was undoubtedly preceded by a long tradition.

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» Greek Mythology and the Temples of Asclepios
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/15/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

As in Mycenaean times, both religious and secular medical practice continued to operate side by side.

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» Cretan and Mycenaean Medicine
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/15/2007 | Medical History | Unrated

When Greek medicine is mentioned, the name of Hippocrates is usually called to mind as the personification of a rational, nonreligious approach to medical practice.

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» Ancient China
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 04/15/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

In ancient Chinese cosmology, the universe was created not by divinities but self-generated from the interplay of nature's basic duality: the active, light, dry, warm...

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» Ancient India
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 03/31/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The earliest culture in India of which we have archaeological evidence centered on Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, chief cities of the Indus valley civilization, which flourished from about 2500 to 1500 B.C.

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» Ancient Egypt
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 03/30/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The oldest of the medical papyruses is the fragmentary Kahun Papyrus, which deals with veterinary medicine and women's diseases.

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» Ancient Hebrew Medicine
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 03/30/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The Biblical Hebrews may have inherited a number of their beliefs from ancient Mesopotamian cultures, among them a conviction that disease was divine punishment and therefore a mark of sin.

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» Ancient Civilizations — Mesopotamia
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 03/30/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The ancient region of southwest Asia known as Mesopotamia is literally "between rivers": the Tigris and Euphrates, which have their headwaters in the mountains...

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» Medicine in the Pre-Columbian Americas
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 03/29/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

When the conquistador Hernán Cortes and his followers crossed the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in the year 1519, they expected to find primitive natives like those encountered in the Caribbean islands to the east.

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» Primitive Medicine
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 03/29/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

The medical ideas and practices among primitive cultures of today show considerable variety, differing in accord with geography and a society's historical heritage.

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» Prehistoric Medicine
By Albert S. Lyons | Published 03/26/2007 | Medical History | Rating:

Before there were humans on earth, there was disease. But were the diseases of early animals the same as those of evolving humans?

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