Una cioccolata con padre Martini: appunti di cultura materiale del Settecento by Carlo Vitali

“…A drug claimed to have health-improving qualities, a status symbol, social lubricant, tool for seduction, or complementary currency for paying high-end professionals, a issue disputed among rival schools of medicine and moral theology: in the early-modern lifestyle, all this and much more was associated with the habit of drinking chocolate. …”
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Representations of medical instruments and equipment in Serbian medieval painting by Pajić Sanja

“…The following medical instruments have been displayed: knives, probes, spoons, tweezers, as well as various carrying boxes for equipment (square-like and cylindrical) and cases, and glass vessels for medical lubricants. Identification has been carried out owing primarily to late Roman remains of medical instruments and equipment, while such remains originating from Byzantine period are very rare. …”
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Gümrük Birliği Antlaşmasını Takip Eden Süreçte Türkiye-BRICS Dış Ticareti Yoğunlaşma Analizi(Analysis of Concentration of Foreign Trade between Turkey and BRICS during the Period F... by Nurdan KUŞAT

“…It was determined that the product-based concentration in exportation occurred only within the product group named “Crude Materials, Inedible, Except Fuels” (54.8%), whereas the concentration within importation occurred in the product groups named “Mineral Fuel, Lubricants and Related Materials” (35.3%), “Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles” (32.%) and “Animal and Vegetable Oils, Fats and Waxes” (30.5%).…”
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Initial observations on sexual dysfunction as a symptom of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy by Reimer, Nadine, Brodesser, Dirk, Ratiu, Dominik, Zubac, Damir, Lehmann, Helmar C., Baumann, Freerk T.

“…Five (63%) of them reported genital organ symptoms and mainly lubrication disorders. Four (80%) of the five sexually inactive women reported genital organ symptoms. …”
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