The decisions of microbe hunters about what to look for is not the only thing that could foster the second round of the germ theory. The infrastructure of scientific information gathering could be altered as well. In particular, anecdotal information could be used more effectively than it has in the past.The CDC and the FDA [...]
“What about the child who doesn’t have tonic-clonic seizures, but has seizures where he wanders around confused, picking at things, and could injure himself? What should I do during one of those?”During this type of seizure, what is called a “complex partial seizure,” the patient is confused and not really aware of what he is [...]
As few as 50 years ago, a diagnosis of cancer was .usually a death sentence. Health professionals could only guess at probable causes, and treatments were often as deadly as the disease itself. Because we had no idea how a person “got” cancer, fears about possible infection led to secrecy by victims and ostracism and [...]