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From: scb1@tank.uchicago.edu (Sam Blackman)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: What's the Why and How of Mosquito Bites?
Message-ID: <5032@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 89 15:31:26 GMT
References: <5399@mtgzy.att.com> <1840001@hpmtlx.HP.COM>
Reply-To: scb1@tank.uchicago.edu (Sam Blackman)
Organization: University of Chicago
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In article <1840001@hpmtlx.HP.COM> heumann@hpmtlx.HP.COM ($John_Heumann@hpmtljh) writes:
>> I hardly know a poison that is used to human advantage... 
>
>Well, gee there's atropine, belladona, digitalis all of which are quite 
>toxic but also find legitimate medicinal use.  In fact I'd almost go to 
>the other extreme:  most drugs are poisonous and their medicinal
>use involves careful titration of dosage to stay under the toxic range.



Well, forgive my innocence (or rather lack of whole-brain thinking) ... I
rapidly withdraw that remark and concede the point ...

Sam
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