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 fact, people have known since at least the 4th century BC that the earth is round, and the pseudo-scientific conviction that we actually live on a disc didn't emerge until Victorian times. Theories about the earth being flat really came to the fore in 19th Century England.