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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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#1 Lister's father, Joseph Jackson Lister, was a scientist who made many discoveries in optics. He was the couple's fourth child and second son. Lister was born on April 5, 1827. He had many opportunities to explore miniature worlds with the microscope while he was growing up.
#2 Lister was a surgeon, and he was very against the use of foreign substances in medicine....
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#1 Alice Collins Plebuch is a retired teacher who loves to sew. She is very short, and her grandchildren call her Grandma Nerd for her love of technology. She warned me not to take my shoes off, because sewing pins were scattered all over her house.
#2 Alice's brain was trained to solve problems and find solutions years before she was asked to answer the most important...
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#1 The hospital at the Yambuku Catholic Mission in Zaire, Africa, was filled with African oil palms and tropical vegetation. The buildings were made of brown bricks, and had open porticoes running along their sides. The maternity ward was a modest pavilion with a room that contained nineteen beds.
#2 The experience of Sister Beata, a nurse at the Yambuku hospital,...
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#1 Modern man is the man of the 20th century, and he is the first to have to consider what the future of man will be. The question of man's future is not just relevant for modern man, but for all men of the 20th century.
#2 The first stage in the development of Western man spans the time from approximately 1500 B. C. until the beginning of the Christian age. This...
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#1 Health is not a fixed entity, but rather something that varies from person to person. It is the ability to adapt to one's environment. Health is not synonymous with a high metabolic rate, but rather a warm body, good digestion, and daily bowel movements.
#2 The thyroid is the butterfly-shaped gland located at the front of your neck. The thyroid synthesizes four...
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#1 The carpenter was sitting on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan with his buddies, half a dozen subcontractors in hard hats sipping their coffees before the morning shift got started. The crane fell directly across a busy intersection and the police shut it down, snarling traffic in all directions.
#2 The author was a medical student when she was assigned to autopsies....
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#1 The reading brain is the result of our intellectual evolution, and it has changed over time as we have learned to read new things. It has expanded our capacity to think, feel, and infer, and it has changed how we communicate.
#2 The brain's ability to learn new things is based on its plastic design, which allows it to make new connections among structures and...
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#1 Cara was a thirty-something woman who came to see me because she was struggling with depression. She had friends, but much of what they had already achieved served only to remind her of what she had not. She was single and longing for a committed relationship, but she saw herself as less than desirable.
#2 The key to healing from the Western world's emphasis...
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#1 The human brain contains approximately 100 billion nerve cells, which are called neurons. The proper functioning of the nervous system depends on communication between the neurons. Each neuron receives oxygen, glucose, and a host of other molecules from adjacent capillaries.
#2 The human brain's 100 billion nerve cells are richly interconnected, making approximately...
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#1 The second most important figure in the Vienna circle was Alfred Adler, who founded individual psychology. He was a plain-looking man who had grown up on the city's outskirts. While Freud was a patrician type who had come from a highly educated background, Adler was the working-class son of a grain merchant.
#2 Adler believed that the human psyche is shaped...
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#1 The most common form of acid damage is gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, which has more than doubled since 1995. It is not always easy to diagnose, as it can only be seen in patients with throat-based symptoms.
#2 Acid reflux is when gastric acid from the stomach goes the wrong way, or refluxes, up into the delicate tissues of the esophagus, causing...
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#1 Your spine is an important part of your body, and it provides you with structure and support. It is also a protector, serving as a bony barrier between your spinal cord and nerves.
#2 The spine is made up of 33 spool-shaped bones called vertebrae. Each vertebra is about an inch thick and stacked one on top of another. The vertebrae are supported by ligaments and connected...
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#1 sensory processing problems affect children's behavior, learning, and movement. They can be major or minor, and they need understanding and help, because no child can overcome the obstacles alone.
#2 Tommy is a three-year-old who is very fussy. He is crying because his shoes are too tight, his socks too lumpy. He yanks them off and throws them away. Vicki is...
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#1 The use of the iron lung to treat polio patients was extremely limited, but the images of victims stuck inside the iron lung would forever change the way people thought about disease and medicine.
#2 The story of polio is often told as one of the greatest medical achievements of all time, with the Salk and Sabin vaccines being the culmination of decades of research....
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#1 The idea that mindfulness is better than chocolate is based on research that shows we're happiest when our minds are not wandering. This means that we're not thinking about what we're doing 47 percent of the time.
#2 Mindfulness is the ability to be present in the present moment and non-judgmentally. It is a foundation practice that has been adopted by many...
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#1 The first written description of influenza was made by a doctor called Hippocrates in 412 BC. He defined an epidemic as a disease that propagates in a country. Hippocrates thought that disease was the result of an imbalance between the four humours or fluids that circulate in the human body.
#2 The Cough of Perinthus was probably not the first flu epidemic. The flu virus...
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#1 The history of surgery began with the discovery of cavemen who had performed neurosurgery. The skulls were found to have been trepanned, or deliberately removed a large portion of their craniums.
#2 The ancient skulls that were found showed that Stone Age surgeons were able to perform complex surgery, such as trephination, which was the removal of part of the...
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#1 The first aspect of the exchange of terms in the langue is related to the structural dimension of language, and the second to its functional dimension. Each dimension is separate but linked, which is what makes the classical configuration of the linguistic sign under the rule of the commodity law of value so unique.
#2 The law of value is revolutionized in such...
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#1 This book is written for psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, school psychologists, school counselors, therapists, and students who provide individual therapy to children aged five to twelve years.
#2 The chapters that follow will guide you through the process of using ACT with children. You will learn about the first session with the child, how to introduce...
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