"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Honoring Franklin: The Royal Society of Medicine, of all places, is honoring anti-royalist Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's accomplishments were so numbered and so varied, it shouldn't be surprising that a medical society would be honoring him. Here's an interesting tidbit:
He was also one of the first to observe that prolonged exposure to lead would cause sickness.
While working as a printer he noticed that some of his colleagues had a condition that they called "The Dangles" - wrist drop caused by lead poisoning associated with this occupation. posted by Sydney on
11/01/2005 03:04:00 PM
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