The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. – Robert Frost If you live in a multi-pet household, as I do, you will know the one I am talking about. The dog that never caused anyone any trouble, never barked, never bit, never peed in the house,… Continue reading Old Dog Lying In The Sun
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."