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HYPOXIA Introduction Hypoxia is simply a lack of oxygen at the tissue level of the body due to a decreased partial pressure of oxygen in the inspired air. Hypoxia is serious, because it may lead to death. Diseases of the blood, the heart and circulation, and the lungs may all produce some form of hypoxia. There are four types of hypoxia: (1) the hypoxic type, in which the oxygen pressure in the blood going to the tissues is too low to saturate the haemoglobin; (2) the anaemic type, in which

difficult to combat with. By examining the history of bioterrorism, one can learn how military forces utilize this deadly weapon. First we will discuss the first known utilization of bioterrorism, in the 6th Century BCE. The Assyrians used Rye Ergot to poison the Israelite’s water supply.

Ann was date-raped when she was only 17 years old and found out she was pregnant. Her parents pressured her into marrying her current boyfriend, or the date-rapist, to prevent family embarrassment and keep him out of jail. Ann’s boyfriend was told that beating her would cause a therapeutic abortion, so Ann was subjected to horrid treatment including throwing her against walls and choking her. When Ann left her boyfriend, she was not allowed to get an abortion, and her baby was born with extreme brain

the surviving patients had experienced the absolute pinnacle of the ‘Placebo effect’. The first effective form of treatment for migraines was only developed multiple thousand years later in 1868, in which a substance created from a fungus known as ergot was used. It continued to be used and developed until eventually during the late 20th century when more effective methods were created and confirmed. SYMPTOMS Unfortunately migraines are not as simple as the occasional headache, but generally occur

Technology had been created to allow easy access to the drugs by putting them in vending machines. Looking back on page 67 there’s another drug/job connection, “When I’m at work I function better if I can get an ergot-based psychedelic drug; it causes me to actually see who I am up against and I find that it helps.” These people purposely did drugs to increase their chances of being hired. Another moral based problem in Ubik are moratoriums. Once a person dies

The Two Types of Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease Parkinson’s disease (PD), a degenerative nervous system disorder, is more common every day, yet it is still a mystery on what causes it. More than a million Americans have been diagnosed with PD and every year there are 60,000 new cases. Affecting older people, it is the second most common disorder and the condition is expected to increase as the aging population increases. PD essentially is the loss of dopamine-producing neurons. The increase in research

unharmed. In the 1600s enslaved women would take measures to abort fetuses. This happened in a time when women were commonly raped by slave owners. Colonial women often conducted the abortions, using the savin from the juniper bush, pennyroyal, tansy, ergot, and seneca snakeroot to terminate pregnancies. In the US women have been terminating pregnancies since colonists first arrived here. Abortion was first outlawed in connecticut in 1821, the first state to outlaw abortion. By 1910 every state, kentucky

The author of this particular excerpt was none other than Cotton Mather who lived in Salem Massachusetts, a small village 20 miles north of Boston.During this time the accounts and turmoil within the community was at an all-time high. The conspiracy that there were pacts being made with the devil and that witches were a grave threat , are revealed to us today through the accounts of writers like Cotton Mather’s being notable within the New England Colonies during early colonization. As an educated

Drug use is not something that just happens overnight. There are many things that led up to a person deciding they want to try a drug for the first time. It might be that they were exposed to it at an early age and perceived it to be the norm to use them. They might have experienced peer pressure at a party or just wanted to fit in with a certain crowd. Or they may have gotten a prescription for one and liked the high they felt when they were on it so they wanted to find a way to continue feeling

Treaty of Tordesillas: Portugal and Spain were the first to establish settlements in America and lead the nations to clash over land. The monarchs both turned to the Pope, who in 1493 drew a vertical line (Line of Demarcation)from the north to the south. In 1494 they moved the line a few degrees and then signed this treaty and Spain got the west while Portugal got the east. Mayflower Compact: In 1620 sailing towards the new world the pilgrims created a document which said decisions were to made by