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Economic crisis, bank failures and plague in the Middle Ages.

A.D. 1200 has been called the golden age, as characterized by a booming economy combined with widespread...

Plague and Vampirism in the Middle Ages

In A. D. 1300 in Poland, more precisely in the region of Kashubia, was coined the term "nachzehrer"...

"The Miroir Des Simples âmes" Marguerite La Porete

"The miroir des simples âmes" Marguerite la PoreteThe first of June 1310, in Paris, the heart...

Biological Weapons

The Geneva Protocol was ratified the 17 June 1925, banned the use of biological weapons but Japan...

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Prof. Camillo Di Cicco - University of Rome/Medicine, 110 e lode, M.D., University of Rome 'La Sapienza',1975. Dermatologist, 70 e lode. M.D., University of Rome 'La Sapienza, 1978

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“The Role of Abathur (the Third Life) in the Mandaean Story of Creation.”

Netherton syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis of unknown cause characterized by: erythroderma, trichorrhexis invaginata (TI) (bamboo hair), ichthyosis linearis circumflexa (ILC), atopic diathesis and failure to thrive.



The syndrome is named either as Netherton or as Comel and Netherton.

Avalon, "Isle of the Blessed", is a legendary island famous for its beautiful apples, featured in the Arthurian legend described by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain).


Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100-1135) wrote several works in latin being this the used language of learning and literature in Europe during the medieval period. 

In the movies  on the crucifixion, were committed a serious mistakes, from the medical point of view, probably dictated by the official iconography that sees the crucifixion with the sounding of the nails at the palms of the hands. 

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