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Originally Posted by graham.hobart
And I think the Medicine one is pretty cool- think about it.
You are up in the Mountains where the air has dried your mucous membranes, or you are in the Antarctic, and you have a nose bleed, but you happen to have some cured pork around. Voila!!  Wonder if beef jerky or even dried caribou would do? |
yes, the pork one is interesting - apparently the technique saved at least one life that would otherwise have been terminated by an untreatable condition. Makes you wonder what other gems are lurking in old wives tales and folk medicine.
But the one that appealed to me was that those who stay up late are likely to have pretty cruddy personalities - astronomers beware??