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while burning an aromatic oil in a Complementary medicine is in. Nor ceramic holder? (For statistical buffs, am I silly enough to believe that this is the first time you have heard the the independent variable of doing all of the above in the presence of a rumour. I confess that the benefits of aromatherapy are lost on me but feel potentially explosive dead rat should be discounted.) free to put that down to the fossilized attitudes of a fifty something practi• I think the bit about life expectancy tioner. All I can tell you is that the came to mind after I had finished reading about a turtle (Globe and Cheshire fire brigade (Sunday T elegraph Jan 5, '97) are issuing warnings Mail June 10, '97). Joey the tortoise P.J. Taylor, MD, FRCSC, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, was blitzed in London in 1940. He that standard ceramic holders used University of British Columbia. was found living in a drainpipe in for burning aromatic oils cannot withstand great heat and may be fire 1953. Empress Eugenie's pet turtle escaped when the aristrocrat visited Egypt in 1870. hazards. It was found, placed in the Cairo zoo, and survived As if wondering whether or not your favourite aroma was going to incinerate you wasn't enough of a stresunti11949. Neither creature was of the exact aversor, you now have to sweat it out before you decide age weight for its species. Of course neither was exposed to the carcinogens in expensive Scotch to have a glass of whisky. (Please note; "whisky" is the Scotch stuff. We Irish spell ours "whiskey.") The whisky. Globe and Mail (Jan 11, '97) reports that expensive • From the same article I note, wood turtles can negotiate mazes but one has ahabit of whistling at female whisky, (without an "e") particularly the single wood turtles. The Eastern box turtle emits a strong malts, is much more carcinogenic than the cheaper odour when provoked. I am unable to ascertain the brands. The lowest amounts of carcinogens are found in a certain Irish whiskey (with an "e"). Readers are response of a female eastern box turtle if whistled at advised not to attempt to produce the whisky aroma by a male wood turtle. The musk turtle can draw by heating the fluid in a ceramic holder. blood with a bite and emits a skunk-like odour. We may be onto something with this latter species. Nor should you poison rats with poison containing Blood letting and leeching were once used theraphosphorous. A couple in England (Globe and Mail peutically. Now that practitioners of evidence-based May 24, '97) have been told that a $120,000 blaze medicine have pretty weH junked both, they are sure in their cottage may have been caused by an explodto be picked up by some alternative healer. ing rat. It is probable that the deceased rodent Applications of musk turtles could produce homeodecayed, exposing the residual phosphorous to the pathic blood letting and aromatherapy simultaneair at which point the chemical, as is its wont, burst ously (with no risk of your ceramic holder catching into flames. The unfortunate couple did not even fire). As long as the treatment was given holistically need a ceramic aromatherapy holder. it would probably work-at least we11 enough to Modem humans weigh 58.7 kilos (1291bs) on average. This just in from a research team in Baltimore. bring the recipients up or down to the average weight of 58.7 kilos. App. musk turt. t.i.d. might Dare I ask why this is important information? Did they arrive at this answer by weighing a lot of folks, even give the recipient a chance of a life span of the eastern box turtle (138 yrs). On the other hand it totting up the score, and dividing by the number of might not. I think 1'11 go down to the ce11ar, risk weighees? What is the influence on life expectancy exploding rats but avoid carcinogens. My tipple will of weighing 60 kilos, paricularly if someone of that have the "e." gross tonnage is drinking an expensive malt whisky

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