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Terry Given
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Rich Grise wrote:
are EXPENSIVE - something like $20 each. For some funny reason they have
to grow them in fairly sterile conditions, which is probably a neat trick.
Cheers
Terry
My partner worked on a plastics ward for a while. Medical grade leechesOn Sat, 04 Dec 2004 14:33:15 -0800, Bill Sloman wrote:
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A little 'cow pie' humor, eh?
btw, why is a cow pie like a blonde?
The older they are, the easier they are to pick up.
But *why* would you ever want to pick up a cow pie???
[snip]
Where do you think the Frisbee concept came from ?
...Jim Thompson
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I thought is name was Hoo Flung Poo. [
Naw, I can't see pitching one of those, because it'd fly apart. And
catching one would be a totally splattering mess. But then I'm a city
slicker, not a farm boy, and I don't believe half of what they say.
http://www.farmerboys.com/ I mean, C'mon! If you think that's big, you
oughtta see the chicken that laid it!
Naaaah! They dry up pretty sturdy... lot of straw content ;-)
Sure do. When I was a kid in Tasmania I got my face laid open by a
dried cow-pat that had been flung at me by another kid in the course
of some neighbourhood altercation - I think the flinger was as
surprised as I was by the effect, as we were pitching the cow pats at
one another over quite a distance, and none too accurately.
The wound bled quite profusely, but didn't need stitches, though I did
get an anti-tetanus injection. My parents were quite worried about
possible infection, but it healed up rapidly without leaving any scar.
It's actually probably one of the cleanest things you could get hit by
that's been picked up off the ground. The microbes that like to eat poop
don't like to infect wounds. Live flesh probably tastes bad to them. ;-)
I've heard from several different pieces of literature that maggots will
clean infection out of a sore, but not hurt live tissue. And I had a
GF once who worked as an MA for some Hollywood plastic surgeon, and she
reported that they actually do use live leeches to reduce bruising and
swelling. They're kept in special sterile leech-houses. She didn't say if
they fed them, or just left them hungry so that they'd go right to work. ;-)
Cheers!
Rich
are EXPENSIVE - something like $20 each. For some funny reason they have
to grow them in fairly sterile conditions, which is probably a neat trick.
Cheers
Terry