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A model that locates a person’s position on the health/disease continuum. Antonovsky’s model of health that proposes that health resides on a continuum from an entropic end to a salutary end; how one manages stress can move a person toward either end of the continuum.  

The origin of health as opposed to disease.  

A description of people who overreact to the presence of sodium in the body by retaining fluid resulting in increased blood pressure.  

A diuretic has a false reputation of being an anaphrodisiac. Potassium nitrate, also known as niter, was traditionally used in meat preservation due to its ability to inhibit the growth of bacteria. However, it has largely been replaced by sodium nitrate in modern times. In addition to its preservative properties, potassium nitrate can also be…

Tubal ligation. A surgical operation to remove or cut a Fallopian tube, used as a method of contraception. Surgery in which one or both fallopian tubes (the tubes that transport an egg from an ovary toward the uterus) are removed. Salpingectomy is usually performed to treat an ectopic pregnancy (one that develops outside the uterus)…

An insane asylum in France for female lunatics during the eighteenth century. It was here that Philippe Pinel ordered the chains and shackles removed from the patients, thus introducing the moral treatment movement, Bicetre.  

Infection by one or more of the Salmonella group of bacteria. Food poisoning caused by Salmonella in the digestive system. Form of food poisoning, caused by eating food contaminated with Salmonella bacteria; symptoms include sudden abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever and diarrhea (sometimes bloody and watery). There is no specific treatment, but dehydration should be…

A parasite of rodents and the causative agent of mouse typhoid and of food poisoning.  

The causative agent of typhoid fever. A gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacterium that is an exclusive human parasite and the causative agent of typhoid fever. This organism is transmitted through water or food contaminated with human waste.    

A vaccine given by injection to immunize a person against polio; Sabin vaccine. An injected vaccine against poliomyelitis, consisting of inactivated polio virus. Vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis, used for infants, children with deficient immune systems, and unvaccinated adults. A vaccine against poliomyelitis, formed by treating the…