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Re: Leeches (Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Joshua Hesse (raccoon@cse.unl.edu)
16 Oct 1995 21:38:28 GMT
Troy McSpadden (MTroy@sisna.com) wrote:
: In article <45n0es$dle@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
: raccoon@cse.unl.edu (Joshua Hesse) wrote:
: >Dave Ratcliffe (dave@frackit.com) wrote:
: >: In article <1995Oct12.160919.16592@unislc.slc.unisys.com>,
: "G. Merrill Dodge" <MDodge@slcpo2.slc.unisys.com> writes:
: >: - idaniel@jesus.ox.ac.uk (Illtud Daniel) wrote:
: >: - >No they haven't. There's a leech farm in South Wales
: which is doing
: >: - >very nicely thanks.
: >: - >
: >: - True, true. They are used in the reattachment of severed
: limbs/digits. It
: >: - seems that the leeches prevent the buildup of fluids at
: the healing site
: >: - that would otherwise eventually impede the healing and
: allow gangrene to
: >: - start. And since the leeches used are free of harmful
: pathogens, they are
: >: - useful in this regard.
: >: -
: >: - Still, it does seeem kind of creepy. What next? Bleeding?
: >
: >: Maggots to eat away necrotic tissue. It's already being
: done.
: >
: >Don't forget the *AMAZING* Tapeworm diet pill ;)
: >
: >
: Are you serious?!? Yuck, I'm terribly disgusted by tapeworms
: to begin with...but to take a tapeworm pill?? Ewwww, no thank
: you. 8<
Oh come on, It's simple.
You eat the food, you digest the food, and the tapeworm gets the nutrients.
Eat as much as you want and starve to death.
It's that simple :)
FWIW, A highschool teacher told us that the FDA busted some guy a few
years back for selling tapeworm cysts as diet pills.
Anybody else hear about this?
-Josh
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