Illness

Subjective tinnitus, or the phantom perception of sound with no identifiable sound source (Johnson, 2014), is a major problem for many individuals. Affecting roughly 15% of the global population ("Und…

Some philosophers say that humans will be the downfall to themselves and if you were to compare the past and the present there were many situations where many people died from those diseases due to th…

The pathogen Euphoric Swelling is a type of bacterial infection spread through a housefly. Being a bacterial pathogen means it is a microorganism made of a single cell, it is tremendously resistant an…

Diabetes mellitus is taken from the Greek word diabetes, meaning siphon - to pass through and the Latin word mellitus meaning sweet. Ancient Greek, Indian, and Egyptian civilizations discovered the sw…

Samuel Pepys and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu examine illness and treatment throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Pepys witnessed the plague in the sixteenth century while writing about it …

Hemodialysis is a common treatment for patients with kidney failure. A machine is used to send blood through a dialyzer. A surgically created vein is used to remove and return blood during hemodialysi…

"They danced together, ceaselessly, for hours or days, and in wild delirium, the dancers collapsed and fell to the ground exhausted, groaning and sighing as if in the agonies of death. When recuperate…

E. coli, a disease that can be harmless or one that could potentially lead to kidney failure. E. coli has over 700 strains. There are ones that could produce symptoms such as mild diarrhea, or ones th…

Cancer; among the leading causes of death around the world is single-handedly changing modern medicine as we know it. Cancer is a deadly and violent tumor- forming disease that is caused by a genetic …

All around the world, there are people with diseases and illnesses that stop them from doing many things. Autism is probably the worst of them. Autism is a genetic syndrome that "refers to a broad ran…