“Was that a high C or vitamin D?” Groucho Marx as Otis P. Driftwood Okay, I admit it. I am a Philistine when it comes to opera. I can’t help it. I grew up in Houston, Texas when the acquisition of central air conditioning was a cultural zenith. Houston, back then anyway, didn’t have opera. … Continue reading My Night At the Opera
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."