Kick to the Head
Mania of the Week
Typomania -- an extreme desire to print or publish one's lucubration, not to be confused with verbomania, which is, in part, an obsession with using words nobody knows. Not that this a problem here.
Food for Thought
We all know about the weird stuff purposefully put into foods, such as red dye from cochineal beetles or sand (fancy name: silicon dioxide) used as an anti-caking agent. Then there are the presumably unintended ingredients. These are all reported cases: a black widow in grapes, a frozen frog in a bag of vegetables, a live frog in a bag of fresh spinach, a dead mouse in a can of Mountain Dew, severed human fingers in frozen custard and chili, a tooth in a candy bar, condoms in French fries and clam chowder, a live bullet in a hot dog and syringes poking up all over the place.
Best Medicine
When you get older, "one for the road" means peeing before you leave the house.
Observation
"Doctors is all swabs." -- Billy Bones, shipmate to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island" (1883)
Medical History
This week in 1987, the FDA approved the sale of AZT (azidothymidine), an antiviral drug believed to prolong the lives of some AIDS patients. By 2000, an estimated 50 million people were infected with HIV worldwide. AZT was the first authorized antiretroviral AIDS drug. Combined with recently approved antivirals, AZT's effectiveness has been increased, and AIDS today meets the criteria for a chronic disease.
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