Britain is trying to come to terms with the launch of extra-strong Marmite, but it seems the original born-in-Blighty foodstuff with a whiff-of-superhero-comic-book name is more than just a condiment. Marmite, together with its younger, Australian kinsman Vegemite, is an ongoing biomedical experiment. Streaky dabs of information appear here and there, spread thin, on the […]
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When Is a Lung Abscess Like Popcorn?
“When Is a Lung Abscess Like Popcorn?” asks Dr. Mark Crislip, in a Medscape Today report on December 29, 2010. (Thanks to investigator Edwin Spector for bringing this to our attention.) Dr. Crislip, musing about an odor associated with a particular patient, muses: The patient is a 17-year-old girl who had been sick for 1 […]
The Medical Danger of Kissing Toads
A 1999 medical report [see below] warned about children kissing frogs or toads. The Star newspaper says says of the new movie “The Princess and the Frog” that “More than 50 children have been taken to hospital in the US suffering from salmonella poisoning after the fairytale hit screens there in December.” The medical report […]
History of homeopathic overdose
The vast archives of homeopathic literature do describe — once, in an 1864 book (see below for detail) — the danger of homeopathic medicine overdose. We mention this as background to today’s worldwide demonstrations — volunteers take massive amounts of homeopathic medicines (medicines from which all the medicine has been removed) to demonstrate that those […]