His family made funeral arrangements and prepared a coffin for him, but astonishingly Gage recovered. About two weeks after the accident Dr. Harlow released 8 ounces of pus from an abscess under Gages scalp, which if not done would have drained into Gages brain, and would have killed him. However, by January 1, 1849 Gage was living a seemingly normal life. Harlow wrote a case report on Gage's incident and it was found as a letter in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. It contained very few neurological details, and many were skeptic about the case, because at the time no one thought anyone could survive an injury of that sort.
The first couple of years were not easy for the settlers. The question is Why did so many colonist die? To start off with, one of the problems they faced was environmental problems. Many of Jamestown’s colonist died because of brackish water which was some salty water due to the mixture of fresh and salt water, because of the tides that would happen twice daily. Also, they would dump their human waste into the water and make it even more contaminated so when the people of Jamestown would drink or use the water it would make them ill and even to the point that they died.
By 1350 there were some quite serious public health problems in towns, where the lack of fresh water and drainage was a problem which caused the water to be contaminated by other sources and was not healthy to drink. The government were not willing to donate funds to fixing this problem because they did not think it was their job to improve public health, but sometimes they passed laws requiring people to keep the streets clean especially in times when disease was common however these laws were difficult to enforce. Therefore, the Romans’ progress was not maintained. Meanwhile, animal excrement was common in the street and butchers slaughtered their animals and threw the remains on the streets which lead to disease and germs causing people to get sick. All this suggests that during the middle ages there was no progress in public health and that the standard of public health had gone backwards especially in the towns and cities.
He had been exposed to the frigid elements for an unknown amount of time and many speculated that he had been drinking. Despite these very obvious sicknesses, something else was taking hold inside Poe’s body. In spite of the claims of alcohol poisoning and encephalitis, the great storyteller met his demise of rabies. One reason Poe died of rabies is because he had all of the symptoms of rabies. Some symptoms of rabies are confusion, memory loss and delirium.
Water supplies have been contaminated due to companies not using proper procedures and there also have been seismic activity in areas where there is rarely seismic activity. Fracking’s economic benefits do not compensate for the destructions that we are doing to our environment for generations to come. Many people involved in the fracking industry want you to believe it is safe but when using the numerous chemicals there is no telling what can go wrong. “Water would simply sink into the rock without cracking the substrate. For this reason, the drilling companies must make a slick
The clinical outcome in this situation was clearly that Mr. B was over-sedated leading to a very dangerous situation. Hypoxia during sedation is a common side affect, which is treated by giving the patient O2 or reversing the sedation. However in this situation the staff was not aware that he was hypoxic, and why weren’t they? The answer a nurse had silenced the alarm but had not done an assessment nor alerted anyone else of the situation. Why did the nurse choose to silence the alarm with no further action?
(Document A) Since there was a short supply of fresh water, many colonists died of dehydration. Additionally, the document stated that waste in early Jamestown tended to cluster instead of flush away. These mishaps caused disease which eventually led to death. Another hardship the colonists had to endure was their exposure to new deadly diseases. Nearly 70 out of the 110 original colonists lost their lives by
history. Deepwater Horizon was initially diagnosed as a disastrous and fatal accident but the idea of a simple malfunction was quickly rebutted. Questionable similarities to the 2005 tragic Texas City, Texas explosion earned the company a reputation for consistently neglecting safety. While faulty equipment and technical issues ultimately caused the oil spill, it was the company’s operational leadership inadequacies that were further investigated. Safety recommendations from the Texas City report were ignored
Lack of equipment could’ve been one of factors that contributed to our errors. During this lab, we only had access to one spatula. Due to the lack of time we continued to use this one spatula despite the fact that it may not be cleaned properly and could still be dirty. The dirty spatula could’ve caused our results to be inaccurate because the different samples could’ve mixed causing the color of the flames emitted to vary. Another error that we made was due to lack of equipment once again.
Throughout the country methamphetamine has been destroying homes and families like a wildfire. The alarming rate that methamphetamine is spreading is unjustly being ignored. In John Tierney’s article for the New York Times on August 9, 2005, “Debunking the Drug War,” he attempts to convince the reader that methamphetamine is not a serious problem. He claims that meth is not highly addictive, that it is not spreading at a rate to be considered an epidemic, that it has positive uses, and that the policies used to control meth are not working. John Tierney is incorrect in his assumptions that methamphetamine is not a serious problem that requires immediate attention.