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The value of the sacrament of the sick for mentally retarded persons
The purpose of this paper was to review research and current literature concerning the value of the sacrament of the sick for mentally retarded persons. Its specific threefold purpose was to explore the following questions: 1. Who is eligible for the anointing? 2. Why should the mentally retarded person be anointed? 3· How will the sacrament be administered most effectively
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Life and death in a civitas capital: metabolic disease and trauma in the children from late Roman Dorchester, Dorset
The impact that âRomanizationâ and the development of urban centers had on the health of the Romano-British population is little understood. A re-examination of the skeletal remains of 364 nonadults from the civitas capital at Roman Dorchester (Durnovaria) in Dorset was carried out to measure the health of the children living in this small urban area. The cemetery population was divided into two groups; the first buried their dead organized within an eastâwest alignment with possible Christian-style graves, and the second with more varied âpaganâ graves, aligned northâsouth. A higher prevalence of malnutrition and trauma was evident in the children from Dorchester than in any other published Romano-British group, with levels similar to those seen in postmedieval industrial communities. Cribra orbitalia was present in 38.5% of the children, with rickets and/or scurvy at 11.2%. Twelve children displayed fractures of the ribs, with 50% of cases associated with rickets and/or scurvy, suggesting that rib fractures should be considered during the diagnosis of these conditions. The high prevalence of anemia, rickets, and scurvy in the Poundbury children, and especially the infants, indicates that this community may have adopted child-rearing practices that involved fasting the newborn, a poor quality weaning diet, and swaddling, leading to general malnutrition and inadequate exposure to sunlight. The Pagan group showed no evidence of scurvy or rib fractures, indicating difference in religious and child-rearing practices but that both burial groups were equally susceptible to rickets and anemia suggests a shared poor standard of living in this urban environment