HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Trematode Life Cycle Stages, Fertile Crescent, Ebers Papyrus
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Agricultural revolution provided the driving force for the growth of cities (urbanization) Urban life also enhanced the transmission of diseases through the air and water, by direct contact, and by vectors such as snail, mosquitoes, and flies. The disease of antiquity were characterized by parasites with long-lived transmission stages (eggs) as well as those involving person to person contact. Most diseases became established only when a persistent small number of infectious individuals could be maintains. When the disease became endemic, this require populations greater than a few hundred thousand. A disease that causes blood to appear in the urine (hematuria) Hematuria was described by the fathers if arabian medicine in his canon. Medicine, but the condition, called aaa was recognized much earlier. Penis dripping fluid, and this too may be blood, but such sign was not considered to be connected with disease, but to be a mark of puberty in the male child.
