December 2011
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No, no, the blog didn't vomit. Don't worry.
I know most of you don’t check stuff out on the front-end, but if you do, I’m going to be messing around with the layout today. It will look terrible and bizarre at times. That’s just me beating it into shape. Well, a shape. Maybe not the one I want, but a functional one.
Then, you know, I’ll post horrible skin diseases later. Or something. Have some new stuff, either...
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“He [Samuel Guthrie] - for reasons best known to himself - mixed together two...”
– Samuel Guthrie, discovered chloroform independently in 1831 (Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery - Bloody Beginnings)
Totally legit ways to develop drugs.
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If you enjoy medical history,
zygoma:
I recommend that you watch Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery. I’m on the last “episode” (there are 5) and it’s all pretty interesting.
The first episode concentrates on neurosurgery, and it mentions Walter Freeman (aka “The Lobotomist”, and they actually do an MRI scan of a Howard Dully, who had a transorbital lobotomy performed on him by Freeman when he was a child. There’s also...
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Anonymous asked: Not to be obnoxious, but the correct term is 'binominal', not 'binomial' -- for example, see the title page of the IZCN.
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Scientific Terminology: Taxonomy and Nomenclature...
The origins of medical terms are interesting enough, but Greek and Latin roots are used throughout the sciences, and around here, you’ll see them a lot when it comes to species names. There are some interesting ones out there, with some bizarre (and sometimes humorous) meanings…
But first! Some taxonomy basics:
Setting aside phylogeny-specific nomenclature and cladistics for now,...
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Medical Terminology: Latin and Greek Roots 3 -...
Well, it’s been a while since we’ve had any Greek or Latin added to our Medical Terminology section, so I figure I can dig a few more interesting ones out of the depths of my memory…no overall theme today, just some useful roots. I’ve listed some before, but it can make understanding more simple if you see what can easily get mixed up in one place.
**If you go to my page...
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Peppered Moths
I don’t know about deformation as a result of toxins in the environment, but there is the interesting case of melanism in pepper moths.
Both color morphs of peppered moth, on both natural colored bark and sooty bark.
(images found here)
Before the Industrial Revolution, the bark of the trees these moths lived on was mottled silver, brown and black. The moths matched. There were also...
Anonymous asked: ok ive been following your blog for a very long time and i love all of the information you put up, but what exactly is your blog about? exotic/ endangered animals? and how did you learn all of this information.. through college, or just on your own?
