Medicine changes faster than the body on which it is used.

This stuff was evidently used a lot about 125 years ago or so. I have no idea what it was for. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management – http://www.mrsbeeton.com 2587. The Common Black Draught.—Infusion of senna 10 drachms; Epsom salts 10 drachms; tincture of senna, compound tincture of cardamums, compound spirit of lavender, of each … Continue reading Medicine changes faster than the body on which it is used.

Ya gotta love 'em

Preventable cancer. That’s real high on my list of things now. I think the Cheerful Oncologist would agree. I wonder if he’s anything like Wilson? The Cheerful Oncologist You gotta love cigarette smokers, if for nothing else but their cognitive dissonance.

Yet another reason to be glad I run OSX

From The Cult of Mac… Shut Down in Vista: Nine Choices: Every couple of years Microsoft will come forward and really make the play that they’ve learned from past experiences, and they finally have gotten religion with user-centered design. Well, allow Joel Spolsky to differ on that point. You see, in creating the shut-down feature … Continue reading Yet another reason to be glad I run OSX