Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Intense abdominal pain associated with over exposure to lead. A form of lead poisoning.  

A person who has received specialized training in midwifery, but who does not possess the academic credentials of the registered nurse midwife. A midwife with no formal training or certification, though generally with wide practical experience, allowed to practice in only a few states. Most states require formally trained, licensed practitioners called certified nurse-midwives.  

Biogenetic law.  

The tendency to respond to stimuli that are arranged close to each other as groups rather than as separate entities.  

The premise that learning takes place when responses are rewarded. The psychological principle that positively reinforced behaviors will be repeated and negatively reinforced behaviors will diminish or be extinguished.  

The tendency to perceptually close gaps in slightly incomplete figures, Gestalt psychology.  

A statute. In science, reliable principle, standard, relationship, or observation; a fact. A scientific statement that is found to apply to a class of natural occurrences.  

The name given by French researchers to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  

The earliest example of a patent medicine containing opium was first concocted by Paracelsus in the early part of the sixteenth century. Thomas Sydenham is also credited with its development, but it was somewhat different in its ingredients. A more powerful mixture was compounded by Thomas Dover in 1732, known as Dover’s powder. A solution…

An illness resulting from actions taken by the healer to treat a disease, iatrogenic.