I have mentioned that I purchased the Book of Medicine years ago.  The Book of Medicine has traveled quite a bit since I picked it up.  It moved with me from Central Illinois to South Florida and then up to the Atlanta area. Those two moves were managed by GMAC's moving specialists.  It was part of a fringe benefit of working for Motorola.  They provided a number of benefits from setting us up with a real estate broker, job placement and moving expense money. It was a good fringe benefit and enabled us to move what seemed like trivial things such as the Book of Medicine, which we might have thrown out in other circumstances.  All in all I'm glad I kept it and didn't off load it at a garage sale or a recycling bin.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Beauty and Strength of the Foot
  
  

  Beauty and Strength of the Foot. — not only does the foot, too, frequently sustain heavy weights, but it must carry them as well. It likewise affords a firm support. Were it not for this beautiful mechanism, the constant jarring a concussion which would be experienced in the act of walking would inevitably destroy these delicate organs, the brain and spinal cord, and death would immediately follow. How few persons and civilized nations have perfectly natural feat! The beauty and utility of the human foot is marred; its movements are impeded by encasement and unnatural boots and shoes; these, instead of conforming to the form and shape of the foot, make the foot of death itself to them. The consequences corns, bunions, cross toes, in-growing toenails, large joints, and a number of other evils from which so many suffer the present day.

  And that sections ends another section of non-sense.  I am looking forward to the further sections of the book that actually conveys some knowledge.  You couldn’t find useful information in this section of the book with a GPS device.

• River-Water
  
  

  River-Water. — River-water is, to a certain extent, similar to Spring-water, but is much more apt to be contaminated with sand and clay, organic material from decomposing vegetable or animal remains, the refuse of manufacturers, and especially with the sewage of cities and towns, which it is probable events amounts of sickness and death are annually due in all civilized countries. Unfortunately, River-water is that which is chiefly supplied to towns and cities, and therefore find its way into the systems of vast numbers of our fellow-beings.

   

  In past sections, I have marveled at the excessive use of punctuation, but I’ve never seen the excessive use of “hyphens”. This particular section on water is absolutely rife with the excessive use of hyphens, and it is wreaking havoc on my attempt at editing. It’s almost like the author falls in love with a certain type of punctuation has a brief affair with it for a chapter or two before turning to a new punctuation.  This particular affair is driving me nuts, and I can’t wait for it to be over. If it doesn’t end soon I will probably single-handedly increase NC health insurance rates by myself.

• Buying Prescription Drugs Online Through an Escrow Agency
  
  

  If you have ever considered or tried purchasing prescription drugs online or even supplements, the internet is a very difficult place.  You can never really be certain if a company will actually deliver what you order or whether they will deliver what they promise. 

  Enter the Canada Pharmacy Escrow Service which basically enables you to

  1. shop for drugs and supplements online
  2. Review prices from pharamacies around the world
  3. Place orders through those pharmacies
  4. Provide a prescription or have a medical review performed online
  5. Get the drugs or supplements shipped to you.
  6. If a pharmacy does not deliver or the shipment is lost (remember this is international) then the escrow service protects you and reships the order at no additional cost.

  This basically opens up the pharmacies around the world to people shopping for the best prices.  It is an interesting business application to a problem that was created by the internet and the flattening of the world economy.

  More an more escrow services in general are finding new and useful applications to a number of areas on the internet, medicine is just one of them, but given skyrocketing price of medicine prices around the world, this offers a solution of enabling customers to benefit from price arbitrage (buying from whatever jurisdiction or pharmacy offers the lowest price).