Author: Malcolm Dean
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Publisher: Hollis Pub
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1884186157
Lymphatic Filariasis: The Quest to Eliminate a 4000-year Old Disease
It is one of the oldest and most debilitating diseases in the world. Medical books Lymphatic Filariasis. The National Museum of Japan has wood-block illustrations, made 1,200 years ago, of the gross disfigurement generated by the disease. It remains today the second leading cause of permanent and long-term disability. Yet few people know its name lymphatic filariasis and even fewer know how to pronounce it. This writer had to struggle and understands why the endemic communities produced pithier titles: Big Leg, Big Foot or Gross Foot Medical books .
Medical Book Lymphatic Filariasis
The National Museum of Japan has wood-block illustrations, made 1,200 years ago, of the gross disfigurement generated by the disease. It remains today the second leading cause of permanent and long-term disability. Yet few people know its name lymphatic filariasis and even fewer know how to pronounce it. This writer had to struggle and understands why the endemic communities produced pithier titles: Big Leg, Big Foot or Gross Foot. Even so, most people are familiar with one of its worst outcomes: elephantiasis, the grossly disfiguring swelling of patients limbs.
