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Ayurvedic physicians (5th/6th century BC) first noted the sweet taste of diabetic urine, and called the condition madhumeha ("honey urine"). The term diabetes traces back to Demetrius of Apamea (1st century BC). For a long time, the condition was described and treated in traditional Chinese medicine as xiāo kě (消渴; "wasting-thirst
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas's South Texas region. The South Texas region is an area of 28 counties defined by the Texas Comptroller for economic reporting in 2022, as mapped here. The region included 2020 population of 2.4, or 8.3 percent of Texas' population, with about 32 percent in Hidalgo ...
In 1797, Rollo printed at Deptford Notes of a Diabetic Case, which described the improvement of an officer with diabetes who was placed on a meat diet. [3] He was the first to take Matthew Dobson's discovery of glycosuria in diabetes mellitus and apply it to managing metabolism. [7]
The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas and a portion of northern Tamaulipas, Mexico. It consists of the Brownsville , Harlingen , Weslaco , Donna , Pharr , McAllen , Edinburg , Mission , San Juan , and Rio Grande City metropolitan areas in the United States and the Matamoros , Río Bravo , and Reynosa metropolitan areas in Mexico.
Ancestral Pueblo peoples from the upper Rio Grande region, centered west of Texas; Mound Builders of the Mississippian culture which spread throughout the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries; the Caddo nation are considered among its descendants; Indigenous peoples of Aridoamerica, with south and western Texas being part of the region of ...
South Texas is a geographic and cultural region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of—and includes—San Antonio. The southern and western boundary is the Rio Grande , and to the east it is the Gulf of Mexico .
Texas’ wine region happens to be the second-largest American Viticultural Area, and you can explore dozens of vineyards and tasting rooms along Wine Road 290 (U.S. 290), which leads in and out ...
The United States through English Spectacles in 1792–1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 9, No. 2 (July 1885). Ezekiel Forman. Amusements and Politics in Philadelphia, 1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 10, No. 2 (July 1886), pp. 182–187. The Illinois Indians to Captain Abner Prior, 1794.