Medical anthropology
(Notes and links to related resources)
(Notes and links to related resources)
© 2010-2011 International Institute of Anthropology
Created: 10-29-10
Created: 10-29-10
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1. GENEALOGY POX (Humor)
Warning: NO KNOWN CURE! (very contagious to mature adults)
SYMPTOMS:
* Continual complaint for names, dates, and places.
* Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children.
* Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries
and courthouses.
* Has strong compulsions to write letters.
* Swears at mailman when he leaves no mail.
* Has compulsions to frequently visit strange places, such as cemeteries, ruins, and
remote, desolate country areas.
* Makes secret night calls.
* Hides phone bills from spouse.
* Mumbles to self.
* Has strange, far-away look in eyes.
TREATMENT:
* Medication is useless.
* Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse.
* Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and
be given a quiet corner of the house where he or she can be left alone.
REMARKS:
* The unusual nature of this disease is the sicker one gets, the more he/she enjoys it!
Source: http://www.etherton.net/genehumr.htm
2. Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth). Documented at Mirnoe (local Mesolithic).
About hairy vetch: winter annual legume hairy vetch (Vicia villosa L. Roth), used both as a
cover crop and as a mulch in a sustainable tomato production system. As a cover, vetch
serves to fix nitrogen, recycle nutrients, reduce soil erosion and compaction, and add
organic matter to the soil. When converted to a mulch, the residue reduces weed
emergence, reduces water loss from the soil, acts as a slow-release fertilizer, and
suppresses some pathogens and pests. More ...
3. POTAWATOMI CULTURE, RELIGION, AND PLANT MEDICINE.
Warning: NO KNOWN CURE! (very contagious to mature adults)
SYMPTOMS:
* Continual complaint for names, dates, and places.
* Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children.
* Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries
and courthouses.
* Has strong compulsions to write letters.
* Swears at mailman when he leaves no mail.
* Has compulsions to frequently visit strange places, such as cemeteries, ruins, and
remote, desolate country areas.
* Makes secret night calls.
* Hides phone bills from spouse.
* Mumbles to self.
* Has strange, far-away look in eyes.
TREATMENT:
* Medication is useless.
* Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse.
* Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and
be given a quiet corner of the house where he or she can be left alone.
REMARKS:
* The unusual nature of this disease is the sicker one gets, the more he/she enjoys it!
Source: http://www.etherton.net/genehumr.htm
2. Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth). Documented at Mirnoe (local Mesolithic).
About hairy vetch: winter annual legume hairy vetch (Vicia villosa L. Roth), used both as a
cover crop and as a mulch in a sustainable tomato production system. As a cover, vetch
serves to fix nitrogen, recycle nutrients, reduce soil erosion and compaction, and add
organic matter to the soil. When converted to a mulch, the residue reduces weed
emergence, reduces water loss from the soil, acts as a slow-release fertilizer, and
suppresses some pathogens and pests. More ...
3. POTAWATOMI CULTURE, RELIGION, AND PLANT MEDICINE.