Abstract Mineral drugs are an important constituent of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).Taking minerals that contain heavy metals as drugs is a very national characteristic part of TCM.However, the safety and scientific nature of mineral drugs are controversial owing to their heavy metals and strong toxicity.In 2000, the Food and Drug Administrat
We describe the treatment of a 54-year-old man with a history CHAGA MUSHROOM of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pericarditis who presented with left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following prior left anterior thoracotomy pericardial window.Surgical intervention included pseudoaneurysm repair using a wide patch.Additionally, an attempted mi
Today we know much about the culture of the Viking Age, but there are still gaps to fill.One of them is what the legendary weapon called atgeirr in Icelandic sagas really was.Nowadays researchers prefer to view atgeir as a kind of spear.But the defining features of atgeir MISC are not clearly described and the range of different kinds of spearheads
Visitors to our household in the past couple of years have run the rish of being regaled HOODIES with corny comic stories told with great gusto by my two children.Two of these stories, transcribed from recent tellings, follow.Although the tonditions of recording (by note pad) produced slower, more cautious, tellings than would have occurred in a sp