By Dint:
No Glasses Week. An Experiment in Viewpoints
Vet the vision dependence industry. How much do you really need your glasses, or are they now so conditioned you can't do without them? How about your kids? And appreciate, as you experiment, what it is like to be vision-impaired.
Sassafras: Seven Bedbugs in One Blow
Uses of sassafras wood: its rodent and insect repellent qualities. Sassafras repels bedbugs. Are you listening, NY? Investors?
Romani Medicine, Remedies, Healthcare.
How many of these cross borders into the Roma populations of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria.
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins
Early hero to the different, the Swiss Cretins.
Sassafras and the American Slave Tradition: remedies, uses.
Wound healer, gumbo file thickener for stews, poultices, tonics.
Sassafras, Less Carcinogenic than Beer Beer.
And other anomalies of a ban, placed on a food component, because FDA labeled it an "additive".
Sassafras a Purifier, Say the Tales
Explore Cholesterol, Liver Remedy?
Sassafras and remedies: Dosage and Information, Not Ban ban
Sassafras pharmacology list
How it is and has been used, with benefit.
Vision Care
William Horatio Bates, Bane of Vision Industry.
1920's and later, opthalmologist, advocating and developing eye exercises instead of glasses. Died 1931. His work has been refined, new testing bunked some, kept some, but book worth reading. Relax the muscles, your eyes themselves may well be just fine.
FDA
FDA Reorganization Three Ways: PharmaJocks Panic at Accountability
Foodies Dept: inspections and Safety, Druggies Dept: New drugs, and now Woodsies: testing for natural-type ingredients - keep them honest. A Cabinet Secretary of Ingestibles and Digestibles, Overseeing and Providing for Testing of Natural Ingredients to Compete with the Druggies.
Health Reform
Aortic Pregnancy? No? Optimist waits for tests.
Gratitude for coverage, appreciation for those without.
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