Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:09:38 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980223200405.14406t-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199802240048.LAA01757@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
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> > > Actually, "leeches and anemia" are a bad example. It seems that
> > > leeches work in this case ("New England Journal of Medicine", March 1989,
> > > or thereabouts, I believe... though I could be mistaken, and it might
> > > have been "Lancet").
> No no! They use leeches for helping remove bad blood from areas of the body
> with poor blood flow.. Then of course there is the use of maggots for removing
> necrotic tissue..
No, Terry's right, I saw reference to that in Science News, there was some
kind of chemical that a leech leaves behind that was actually beneficial
to the one who'd just been sucked. They weren't suggesting moving the
clock back 200 years, but they were trying to find ways to make use of
that chemical in modern medicine. I think that was about a year back, if
anyone wants to search www.sciencenews.org.
> I just love modern medicine :)
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