“…The word “asthma” comes from a Greek word meaning “panting” (Keeney 1964), but reference to asthma can also be found in ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, and Indian medical writings (Ellul-Micallef 1976; Unger and Harris 1974). …”
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“…Computer imaging techniques are commonly used to preserve and share readable manuscripts, but capturing writing locked away in ancient, deteriorated documents poses an entirely different challenge. …”
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“…The use of the directionally-asymmetrical left side ox-head symbol to represent a specific phoneme subsequently migrated around the Eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea variously as ’al, ’el, alep, allup, eleph and alif in Ancient Semitic cultures, including Phoenician, Hebrew and Arabic, before becoming “alpha” in Ancient Greece by 700 BCE. …”
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