Ooops, I Broke My Pancreas!
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My pancreas went on vacation, and all I got was a lousy case of Diabetes.
Happy World Diabetes Day to our T1D and T2D fam from I Heart Guts! And if
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Reproduction Wheaton Medicine Bottles
Straubmuller Elixir: Tree of Life
and
Indian Vegetable Jaundice Bitters
Chief Wahoo's Electric Tonic
Monday, September 24, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Quotes from "Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynaecology"
"Waldung picked up on Dubois's comment that 'Woman abounds with a great quantity of blood'."
"They believed that, if menstruation did not occur, then t he surplus blood would come out through another orifice, or continue to build up in the body, putting pressure on different organs, until disease or even death resulted."
"Mercado...[helped] a virgin who, through no fault of her own, has a wide vaginal opening."
"Common to many [treatises on women] was the idea that women are wetter than men, and that this is turn results from the flesh throughout their bodies being of a softer and more spongy texture, absorbing more fluid from their diet. Glands 16 explains that women's bodies retain moisture because they are loose-textured, spongy, and like wool."
"They believed that, if menstruation did not occur, then t he surplus blood would come out through another orifice, or continue to build up in the body, putting pressure on different organs, until disease or even death resulted."
"Mercado...[helped] a virgin who, through no fault of her own, has a wide vaginal opening."
"Common to many [treatises on women] was the idea that women are wetter than men, and that this is turn results from the flesh throughout their bodies being of a softer and more spongy texture, absorbing more fluid from their diet. Glands 16 explains that women's bodies retain moisture because they are loose-textured, spongy, and like wool."
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Midnight Snack
Are you up late at night thinking about your impending death?
Well now you have something to read, too.
Well now you have something to read, too.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Menstrual blood can:
"turn wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seeds in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees falls off, the bright surface of mirrors in which it is merely reflected is dimmed, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives and bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.”
Pliny, Natural History, 7.15.46-65; trans. H. Rackham (Cambridge, Mass.: 1942), 2:549.
- Cornelius Agrippa (from the Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex).
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
More fistulas than you can shake a fist at
A great listen: Radiolab's episode called GUTS.
The best story is a historical one about a doctor that essentially kept experimenting on a guy who had a hole in his stomach. But it sounds way more interesting when they tell it.
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