The idea that ostriches are partial to eating horseshoes goes back a long way. Hundreds of years in fact. See this 14th century depiction of a horseshoe (and nail) Struthioniforme mealtime. But can the birds actually eat and digest them? Over the centuries, several experiments have been performed to find out, and some are recounted […]
Tag: Nails
“Over-enthusiasm for the interrelationships of nails”
Over-enthusiasm and nails are key concepts in this 1957 book review that appeared in the journal Archives of Dermatology, (in vol. 75, no. 3, on page 474): [Book review of] Fisio-patologia del complesso ungueale (Physiopathology of the Ungual Complex) by P. Sertoli. Price, 3500 lire. Pp. 339, with 143 illustrations. Edizioni Minerva Medica, Corso Bramante 83 […]
I Have a Nail “Stuck” In My Hand
“I Have a Nail ‘Stuck’ in my Hand,” E.K. Anesti, C. Malic and S. Southern, Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 49, no. 2, February 2007, pp. 249–50 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.08.038). (That’s an excerpt from the article “Icky Cutesy Research Review,” Published in AIR 15:3.)