Re: Hormesis: The Power of Poison - "Cartoon"

["Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>]

Many of us are taking a little bit of rat poison (coumadin, Warfarin) to

thin the blood and decrease risk of clot, like coronary or cerebral

thrombosis.



I like your hormesis cartoon.



Howard Long



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Stewart Farber" <radproject@optonline.net>

To: "Radsafe" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 10:28 AM

Subject: Re: Hormesis: The Power of Poison - "Cartoon"





> PS to prior post on this subject:

>

> The print copy of the Alumni Monthly for this article included a very cute

cartoon not included in the

> online link. The print version of this short feature on Calebrese shows

two lab rats nose to nose talking

> to each other.

>

> The first rat says:

> "Did you hear about this Hormesis thing? Word from the maze is that a

little dab of poison is good for

> what ails ya."

>

> The second rat replies:

> "That's it. I'm volunteering for the low dose study in the dioxin study."

>

> ===============

> 5/28/04 1:19:45 PM, Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net> wrote:

>

> >Hi all:

> >There is a very interesting article in the Spring 2004 issue of the UMASS

Alumni Mag about Dr. Edward

> >Calabrese's [Professor in the Dept. of Environmental Health Science at

UMASS] research in hormesis and

> its

> >growing respectablity in the toxicology community.

> >

> >See link below:

> >

> >http://www.umassmag.com/Spring_2004/The_Power_of_Poison_613.html

> >

> >

>

>

>

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