Celsus (ca. 25 BC - 50 AD) translated karkinos into cancer, the Latin word for crab or crayfish. In the 2nd century AD, the Greek physician Galen used oncos (Greek for swelling) ... The first cause of cancer was identified by British surgeon Percivall Pott, who discovered in 1775 that cancer of the scrotum was a common disease among chimney ...

111 BC – 40 AD Giao Chỉ: 40–43 ... Between 1627 and 1775, two powerful families had partitioned the country: the Nguyễn lords ruled the South and the Trịnh lords ruled the North. The Trịnh–Nguyễn War gave European traders the opportunities to support each side with weapons and technology: the Portuguese assisted the Nguyễn in ...

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam, también conocida por su abreviatura A. M. D. G., es la divisa de la Compañía de Jesús, una orden religiosa católica.. En latín significa literalmente: «Para la mayor gloria de Dios» y se le atribuye al fundador de la orden, san Ignacio de Loyola, por el uso que hizo de dicha expresión en su escritos.Algunos creen encontrar un antecedente en la expresión in ...