Ciekawostka: Dr

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Safe sex in the era of AIDS.. The term masturbation entered the English language in 1776 in the translation of Tissot's Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism. Tissot linked semen conservation theory from antiquity with degeneracy theory and attributed degeneration and death from the social disease (syphilis and gonorrhea) to semen wastage not only in the social vice of promiscuity and prostitution, but also in the secret vice of masturbation. Nocturnal semen loss became designated as spermatorrhea, a new disease requiring treatment. In the nineteenth century the campaign against masturbation became a medical mania. It reached its apogee under John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., who invented C…

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Corn flakes, or cornflakes, is a breakfast cereal made from toasting flakes of corn (maize). Originally invented as a breakfast food to counter indigestion, it has become a popular food item in the American diet and in the United Kingdom where over 6 million households consume them. The cereal, originally made with wheat, was created by Will Kellogg in 1894 for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium where he worked with his brother John Kellogg who was the superintendent. The breakfast cereal proved popular among the patients and Kellogg subsequently started what became the Kellogg Company to produce corn flakes for the wider public. A patent for the process was granted in 1896, after a le…

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