Sentences with phrase «sampling of the ailments»

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They have learned to remove a tiny core sample from a work of art, analyze it to determine the chemical makeup of pigments, varnishes, and binders, and diagnose any ailments.

It may be that the vegetarians sampled were generally more aware of health and had less reliance on medicine to treat ailments or they were more likely to exercise more if vegetarian.

The dog was given breath and stool samples of 306 patients, collected right before they received colonoscopies; 48 patients had recently been diagnosed with bowel cancer, and the other 258 were either suffering from another colorectal ailment or had survived cancer, or were healthy.

Elsewhere on the site is a display of how cassava was prepared and then made into bread (you can sample a piece at the restaurant here); some replicas of carved «zemis» (sculptural objects which housed a spirit); and another hut that functioned as a clinic where a shaman would wave plants and shake rattles over a patient to get in contact with the god of health and determine the nature of a person's ailment.