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Cathartics such as sorbitol, magnesium citrate, magnesium sulfate, or sodium sulfate were previously used as a form of gastrointestinal decontamination following poisoning via ingestion. They are no longer routinely recommended for poisonings. [ 4 ]
Catharsis is a term used in dramatic art that describes a particular effect of a performance on its audience. [12] The first recorded use of the term being used in the mental sense was by Aristotle in his work Politics, regarding the use of music:
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Today, Hari maintains her "Food Babe" blog, has published several books and is passionate about improving America's food supply. She recently appeared several rows behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
The word carminative is a derivative of Latin cārmen "card for wool", according to Hensley Wedgewood, on the humoral theory that carminatives "dilute and relax the gross humours from whence the wind arises, combing them out like the knots in wool".
Here's who gabapentin was originally approved for, what it's used for today and why it's becoming a drug of increasing concern for abuse and misuse. What's the latest health trend?!
For example, in America in 2012 there were some 78 million dogs, 86 million cats, and 3.5 million rabbits. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ] There is a tension between the role of animals as companions to humans, and their existence as individuals with rights of their own.