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Insomnia (Deinonychus Album)
Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder where people have difficulty sleeping. They may have difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep for as long as desired. Insomnia is typically followed by daytime sleepiness, low energy, irritability, and a depressed mood. It may result in an increased risk of accidents of all kinds as well as problems focusing and learning. Insomnia can be short term, lasting for days or weeks, or long term, lasting more than a month. The concept of the word ''insomnia'' has two distinct possibilities: insomnia disorder (ID) or insomnia symptoms, and many abstracts of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews often underreport on which of these two possibilities the word refers to. Insomnia can occur independently or as a result of another problem. Conditions that can result in insomnia include psychological stress, chronic pain, heart failure, hyperthyroidism, heartburn, restless leg syndrome, menopause, certain medicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tacuinum Sanitatis
The ''Taccuinum Sanitatis'' is a medieval handbook mainly on health aimed at a cultured lay audience. Originally an 11th-century Arab medical treatise composed by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad under the name of ''Taqwīm aṣ‑Ṣiḥḥa'' (). In the West, the work is known by the Latinisation of names, Latinized name taken by its translations: ''Tacuinum'' (sometimes ''Taccuinum'') ''Sanitatis.'' The text exists in several variant Latin versions, the manuscripts of which are profusely illustrated. Numerous European versions were made in increasing numbers in the 14th and 15th centuries. History The British Library possesses in its Oriental Manuscripts collection a presentation copy of ''Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa'' from 1213 copied in Arabic for Az-Zahir Ghazi, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, son of Saladin. The terse paragraphs of the treatise were freely translated into Latin in mid-13th century Palermo or Naples, which continued an Italo-Norman tradition as one of the prime sites for peaceab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
