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Introduction The word “stroke”—literally a striking down—has frightening overtones for most people. overview of strokes as neurological disorders, a stroke can be very serious, even fatal, but it can also be quite mild. A “little stroke” does not necessarily shorten a person’s life and may impair their faculties only temporarily. It should never be looked

Heart is Courageous DON’T worry too much about your heart, as so many healthy people seem to be doing nowadays; rejoice, rather, that nature has placed in your breast one of her most delicate yet durable marvels, an organ of surpassing patience, flexibility and strength. Rejoice, and try to understand how it works. It will

Brain and memory, the human nervous system brain, spinal cord and nerves contains what is substantially a wet-cell electric battery, generating a direct current of about a tenth of a volt roughly one-twentieth as much as a torch battery. The electric charge is created by two body chemicals, sodium and potassium, operating on nerve tissues

Repelling the Unseen Invaders RUTH AND EDWARD BEECHER “NOT sickness but health,” a famous doctor once remarked, “is the greatest of medical mysteries.” Your own good health is an example. Every day your body is assailed by millions of germs, many of which can produce illness or even death. Yet you stay well. Countless bacteria

The Evolution of Eyes Ages ago, when the earth had cooled and life had begun to appear in its tepid waters, one of the first things that developed was eyes. Even the amoeba, the lowliest of all known animals, of which countless millions exist today precisely as they were when life originated on this planet,