Archive for May 15th, 2009

INDIGESTION – INTRODUCTION

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Indigestion is a symptom from which we have all suffered at some time or another.

It appears to be as common as headache but it is a symptom which many people find difficult to describe and, when the term is used, different people often mean different things.

For some it may be anorexia or loss of appetite. [...]

ANTIBIOTICS – “LIVING ORGANISM”

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Over the past 45 years, antibiotics have entirely altered the picture of infectious disease.

To be scientifically correct, the term “antibiotic” should be reserved for those drugs obtained from a living organism, such as a fungus or mould.

Those other drugs which act in the same way but which are synthesised in the laboratory, are usually spoken [...]