malady

The superstition that maladies can be cured by royal taction is dead, but like many a departed conviction it has left a monument of custom to keep its memory green.

Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine- not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs.

The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death.

It must be admitted that a permanent gibbet and a pillory, "a justice and a ladder," as they were called in that day, erected side by side in the centre of the pavement, contributed not a little to cause eyes to be turned away from that fatal place, where so many beings full of life and health have agonized; where, fifty years later, that fever of Saint Vallier was destined to have its birth, that terror of the scaffold, the most monstrous of all maladies because it comes not from God, but from man.

In fact, numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man."

Les participants a la 69eme session du comite regional de l'OMS pour l'Afrique ont invite vendredi a Brazzaville, l'Organisation mondiale de la sante et les partenaires a accroitre leur appui technique aux Etats membres afin qu'ils integrent les maladies non transmissibles dans les plans nationaux de developpement.

L'asthme et la rhinite allergique representent 80% des maladies allergiques qui touchent, en Algerie, 25% de la population.

C'est le cas des patients diabetiques traites a l'insuline et qui ne sont pas equilibres, les malades souffrant d'hypertension arterielle, de maladies cardiaques, mais aussi les personnes souffrant de problemes d'insuffisance renale.