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.
In a 1991 book, âInventing the Flat Earth,â retired University of California professor Jeffrey Burton Russell explains how the myth was perpetuated in the 1800s by writers including Washington Irving and Antoinne-Jean Letronne.