Nicholas Bakalar, the "Vital Signs" columnist for The New York Times, reveals surprising things you never realized you want to know about your body and your health. The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities is a collection of trivia about the wonders of medicine, from rare but horrifying diseases to unexpected remedies.
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Comments [7]
"Gary Null has contested the benefits of wine..."
But Gary Null is a scientific illiterate with a bogus degree:
http://lee-phillips.org/null/phd.xhtml
So who cares what he thinks about the health benefits or wine or anything else?
you should read Nutrition and Degenerative Disease by Dr. Weston A Price
back to pets-- i read an article about a year ago that mentioned some sort of symbiot or parasite that was transfered from cat excretions to the human neural system that caused an irrational attraction of humans to cats resulting in the "cat lady" syndrome. does he know anything of this?
why does LL insist on asking dim-witted questions?
Gary Null has contested the benefits of wine by citing the benefit comes from the use of grapes involved. Rather than drink wine, he suggests eating the grapes themselves since the alcohol in wine is still a problem.
Maggot talk at lunch time? 'cmon spare us.
Leeches were used for blood letting, not maggots.
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