[lit-ideas] Re: Diet of Worms
- From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:58:06 +0100
I am surprised that Carol fails to mention the following well-known medical
fact:
"Sore throat and a running cold are relieved by snails - they should be
boiled unwashed, and with only the earth taken off, crushed and given to
drink in raisin wine; some hold that the snails of Astypalaea are the most
efficacious - by their ash, and also by rubbing with a cricket or if anybody
touches the tonsils with hands that have crushed a cricket."
This according to Pliny the Elder at http://www.jubilat.org/n9/pliny.html.
Ditch your family practioner and save on health insurance premiums. All the
solutions to your medical problems are here. Snails, their shells and their
slime, have many different uses, but my two favorite remedies (and it was a
very difficult choice) are:
"I find that a heavy cold clears up if the sufferer kisses a mule's muzzle."
"We are assured that the hand of a person carried off by premature death
cures by a touch scrofulous sores, diseased parotid glands, and throat
affections; some however say that the back of any dead person's left hand
will do this if the patient is of the same sex.'
Best, Mirembe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Kirschenbaum" <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 9:52 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Diet of Worms
>> What's the dish on snails?
>
> Ah. Snails belong to the same family as frog's legs (as opposed to
> amphibious frogs), and are best sauteed with butter and garlic. Snails on
> their own are a bad idea, except in gardens. For a more detailed
> biological explanation, raise your own expert. Mine allows one question
> per month.
> Carol
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:43 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Diet of Worms
>
>
>> It's odd, but I didn't know that about worms. Many thanks.
>>
> Are they too their own man, so to speak?
>>
>> yrs,
>> andreas
>> www.andreas.com
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Carol Kirschenbaum" <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>> Andreas,
>>> Good question, so I asked my son the developmental biologist at UC
>>> Berkeley.
>>> He wrote:
>>> "Well, there's many kinds of worms.
>>> The common earthworm is called an annelid. Segmented, no appendages
>>> (legs).
>>> Another example in this group is the leech.
>>> There are also flatworms, called platyhelminthes. Example- planarian.
>>> There are round worms, called nematodes. Example- C. elegans.
>>> You're right, they aren't all of those things that you mentioned. They
>>> are
>>> on their own."
>>>
>>> So there you have it. The worm slithers alone.
>>> Best,
>>> Carol
>>
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