STRANGE FACTS ABOUT PD
1. Many people in the Pacific island of Guam have developed Parkinson's Disease, due to feasting on flying foxes, a species of bat that can be as big as six feet across. This is because the bats eat cycad seeds which contain a potent neurotoxin.
2. In 1875, Henri Huchard had a patient that had all of the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease who was only three years old.
3. In the seventeenth century, Nicholas Culppepper claimed a variety of substances to be useful in the treatment of symptoms of Parkinson's Disease that included "oil of winged ants" and earthworms.
4. People are much less likely to get Parkinson's Disease if they smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, have high cholesterol, and drink too much coffee.
5. James Parkinson, whom Parkinson's Disease was named after, never knew that Parkinson's Disease was called Parkinson's Disease.
(source: http://viartis.net/parkinsons.disease)
STRANGER STILL!
The normal high in Winnipeg at this time of year is 0C but today, there is no snow; it is 20C, and my grandchildren are running naked and jumping in a child's "swimming pool"
Is it weird in here or is it just me?
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