Now letâs see the treatment for itching in Renal Failure patients. Renal Failure patients, especially End-stage Renal Disease patients may develop uremia. There are several factors that may contribute to uremia, and the pruritus associated with it can be disabling.
In a nutshell, Gould traces back the myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat to a 19th-century origin in the form of a fabricated textbook passage. The text is included in Gouldâs 1995 collection of essays, Dinosaur in a Haystack.
Several pre-Socratic philosophers believed that the world was flat: Thales (c. 550 BC) according to several sources, and Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and Democritus (c. 460 â 370 BC) according to Aristotle. Thales thought the earth floated in water like a log. It has been argued, however, that Thales actually believed in a round Earth.