Medicine has existed for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism. In recent centuries, since the advent of science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science). While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice, the knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.
This article deals with medicine as practiced by trained professionals from ancient times to the present. Early medical traditions include those of Babylon, China, Egypt and India. The Greeks went even further, introducing the concepts of medical diagnosis, prognosis, and advanced medical ethics. The Hippocratic Oath, still taken (although significantly changed from the original) by doctors up to today, was written in Greece in the 5th century BCE. In the medieval age, surgical practices inherited from the ancient masters were improved and then systematized in Rogerius'sThe Practice of Surgery. Universities began systematic training of physicians around the years 1220 in Italy. During the Renaissance, understanding of anatomy improved, and the microscope was invented. The germ theory of disease in the 19th century led to cures for many infectious diseases. Military doctors advanced the methods of trauma treatment and surgery. Public health measures were developed especially in the 19th century as the rapid growth of cities required systematic sanitary measures. Advanced research centers opened in the early 20th century, often connected with major hospitals. The mid-20th century was characterized by new biological treatments, such as antibiotics. These advancements, along with developments in chemistry, genetics, and lab technology (such as the x-ray) led to modern medicine. Medicine was heavily professionalized in the 20th century, and new careers opened to women as nurses (from the 1870s) and as physicians (especially after 1970). The 21st century is characterized by highly advanced research involving numerous fields of science.
The word "shaman" probably originates from the Tungusic Evenki language of North Asia. According to ethnolinguist Juha Janhunen, "the word is attested in all of the Tungusic idioms" such as Negidal, Lamut, Udehe/Orochi, Nanai, Ilcha, Orok, Manchu and Ulcha, and "nothing seems to contradict the assumption that the meaning 'shaman' also derives from Proto-Tungusic" and may have roots that extend back in time at least two millennia. The term was introduced to the west after Russian forces conquered the shamanistic Khanate of Kazan in 1552. The term "shamanism" was first applied by western anthropologists to the ancient religion of the Turks and Mongols, as well as those of the neighboring Tungusic and Samoyedic-speaking peoples. Upon learning more about religious traditions across the world, some anthropologists began to also use the term to describe unrelated magico-religious practices found within the ethnic religions of other parts of Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas, as they believed these practices to be similar to one another.
"Floating" is a 2004 single by the Irish band Jape, taken from the second studio album, The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me and described as "Jape's trademark song". Co-produced by David Kitt, the single was the first release from the album and was generally viewed by critics as the standout track on the album. In 2007, it featured on the EP, Jape is Grape, for which a video was made. Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs is a known admirer of the song and has performed a cover version during live shows.
"Floating" was a popular single on late night alternative music radio shows in Ireland. The national broadcaster RTÉ described the song as "part drugs story and part love song" and noted its "quirky instrumentation and Gregorian chanting". It described the lyrics as having "a definite feel of amateur philosophy at 5am" but it said that that was "not necessarily a bad thing".
The song was famously overheard being played in Whelan's in Dublin by the musician Brendan Benson who immediately requested a copy of the album. A friend at the venue informed the band of this development following a show at The Bloom Festival during The Rose of Tralee festival in County Kerry. Benson then praised Jape in The Guardian (however, the newspaper spelt it "Jabe") and rang the song's writer to inform him he would be covering "Floating" with his band The Raconteurs. Benson did not actually receive permission to cover the track although it has been said that he would have been allowed to had he asked. Jape witnessed the cover live at the Olympia Theatre and was later to describe it as "a great moment". "Floating" is also covered by the Belgianbastard pop duo Soulwax during their DJ sets.
Damping is an influence within or upon an oscillatory system that has the effect of reducing, restricting or preventing its oscillations. In physical systems, damping is produced by processes that dissipate the energy stored in the oscillation. Examples include viscousdrag in mechanical systems, resistance in electronic oscillators, and absorption and scattering of light in optical oscillators. Damping not based on energy loss can be important in other oscillating systems such as those that occur in biological systems.
The damping of a system can be described as being one of the following:
For example, consider a door that uses a spring to close the door once open. This can lead to any of the above types of damping depending on the strength of the damping. If the door is undamped it will swing back and forth forever at a particular resonant frequency. If it is underdamped it will swing back and forth with decreasing size of the swing until it comes to a stop. If it is critically damped then it will return to closed as quickly as possible without oscillating. Finally, if it is overdamped it will return to closed without oscillating but more slowly depending on how overdamped it is. Different levels of damping are desired for different types of systems.
The third verse sparked some concern in the United States shortly after the album's release. The lines in question are:
Bouncing about on the Moon; Guess you'll all be up here soon! The candy stores will be brand new, And you'll buy rock with the Moon right through!
Ray Thomas's previous outspoken sympathy for LSD advocate Timothy Leary, along with coincidental drug-related slang terms current at the time involving words such as "candy" and "rock," led some Americans to see in "Floating" a coded encouragement to use drugs.
The idea was floated by two Canadian researchers in an open letter published in the New EnglandJournal of Medicine on Wednesday ... While the full regimen of two doses showed an efficacy of 94.8 percent, a single dose stood at 92.6 percent ... The idea of reduced dosage has been floated by some politicians, too ... .
Ranchi. The administration is making all possible efforts to improve the at Covid-19 vaccination sites across the state ... Dr Devesh Kumar, public health expert and a professor of community medicine at Rims, said, “The way in which the infection graph has declined in the state, there are various theories floating around like one dose is enough ... City. .
Gels are formed by mixing polymers into fluids to create gooey substances useful for everything from holding hair in place to enabling contact lenses to float over the eye ...Appel and his team had to make a medicinal Jello that didn't melt, thus losing its time-release properties, when the cool solid was heated by the body.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load ... watchdog explained that “cannabis firms can float” on the LSE, “but only if they produce the drug for medicinal purposes.” ... And in the U.K., the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis estimated that 1.3 million British consumers were spending more than £300 million ($525 million) every year on CBD products ... .
He claimed that the tender floated by the civic body on August 21, 2020 for procuring medicines and disinfectants for civic-run hospitals was not as per standards of World Health Organisation (WHO) and central health authorities ... read more Procurement of medicines, disinfectants.
Prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on needy patients, the state health ministry has once again floated a plan for a separate corporation (Mahamandal) to oversee procurement of medicines and medical devices.
" We appreciate the free health services for the residents through this floating clinic" ... In the floating clinic service, it would also collaborate with the Health Sub-agency in terms of medical personnel and medicinal needs.
sanctions have affected its ability to purchase medicine and vaccines ...Early in the pandemic, Iran's Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei floated In those March remarks, he suggested that "possibly your medicine is a way to spread the virus more.” Those remarks appeared aimed at dismissing any U.S.
Eytan Stibbe. Photo...November 27, 2020 11.08 am. 0 ... Today, the foundation routinely sends payloads to the ISS that include experiments in the fields of biology, medicine, and even physics, he said. During IsraeliSpaceWeek in January 2020, the idea was briefly floated to put another Israeli astronaut in space, but it was all still up in the air ... .
MUMBAI ... On Saturday, 16,323 tests were conducted with 7% (1,190) positivity ... The BMC is also working to ensure adequate supply of oxygen and medicines at all its hospitals and jumbo facilities. It has floated a tender to procure vitamins and zinc tablets for next six months; these tablets help boost immunity among patients’ high-risk contacts ... Mumbai.
Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci are rapidly becoming “the most celebrated marriage in science since Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radioactivity”, says The Times... That pioneering work won them the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2018 and cemented a small personal fortune when BioNTech floated in New York last year.
Then the Medicine person, after placing a piece of angelica root on the place the fire would have been, in a mellifluous voice which floated out over the estuary, sang the Coming Home song for the salmon, in repeated intervals of a fifth (pictured in the short video).
... them again well before it had subsided; agitating for schools, churches, bars and other entities to “open up”; pushing treatments and medicines not recommended or approved and at one point floating the notion of a potential remedy of an injection of household disinfectant.