Cows are domesticated bovine animals that have been used in human agriculture for thousands of years. As ruminants they have a four-chambered stomach system that allows them to digest grass and other plant materials that humans cannot process. There are hundreds of cattle breeds worldwide, ranging from dairy breeds like Holstein and Jersey to beef| Hektoen International
AUTHOR NAME AUTHOR LOCATION According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.1 “According to all| Hektoen International
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Avi Ohry Tel Aviv, Israel Pavel Jacobi. Via Wikimedia. Pavel Ivanovich Jacobi (1841–1913), largely forgotten and rarely featured in the psychiatric literature, was a Russian socialist who made as great an impact on the treatment of the mentally ill as Jonathan Swift in Dublin, Phillipp Pinel in Revolutionary France, Father William Tuke and his| Hektoen International
Amairani Gómez Rodríguez Puebla, Mexico The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893. National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway. I had my first panic attack at seventeen. Biochemistry was a total headache; no matter how hard I studied, it was never enough to pass. As a school overachiever, I had never experienced failure.| Hektoen International
JMS Pearce Hull, England Fig 1. Archibald Edward Garrod. Crop of image in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1932–1954. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0. It is given to very few to invent a new class of diseases and to even fewer one that has survived subsequent scrutiny. Archibald Garrod, KCMG DM| Hektoen International
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden “May you be the proof that man can endure anything.” – Yiddish curse “Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mary Ann Bevan before and after acromegaly. Grid created with Canva by Stela G. on Medium. Public domain photos. From the 1840s through the 1940s, “freak| Hektoen International