Medicina nei secoli
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Medicina nei secoli · Jan 2002
Historical Article[The "medical school" of Alexandria and its influence upon medicine in Graeco-Roman Egypt].
The paper provides new information on the most famous centre of rational medicine in the Graeco-Roman world and its influence in Egypt. It uses at its point of departure a remarkable but insufficiently known documentation: Greek literary papyri (from IV/III B. ⋯ D. VI/VII), which often are unique witnesses to lost medical works, bearing testimony to original theories, practices and vocabulary.
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Medicina nei secoli · Jan 2002
Historical Article[Not only bottles. Glass baby's bottles in between the second half of XIXth century and the first decades of the XXth].
Mother's milk is the best food for the baby. The need to use foods other than mother's milk has always represented a challenging problem to be solved. The author warns that the high mortality during the first year of life during the early years of the XXth century (20%) peaked at an amazing 80% in children artificially fed at orphanages. ⋯ The idea of rubber teat 1845 and of automatic devices for the production of glass bottle - 1903 - contributed to the diffusion of the baby's bottle. First baby's bottles were variously shaped. However, the finding of severe gastroenteritis caused by a long rubber tube attached to the rubber teat (the so-called death-bottle), together with the necessity of a careful cleaning and the diffusion of Soxhket's system (sterilization of many bottles in the same container) will lead to the choice of large mouthed cylindrical bottles, very similar to the plastic bottles used nowadays.