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	Cannibalism - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In some species adults are known to destroy and sometimes eat young of their species to whom they are not closely related--famously, the chimpanzees observed by Dr. Jane Goodall.
		For example, while there are many observations of female praying mantises eating their mates after copulation, there are no known observations of this occurring in the wild; it has only been observed in captivity.
		After several weeks of starvation and struggle for survival, the numerous survivors decided to eat the bodies of the deceased in order to survive, and were rescued over two months later.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Cannibalism (3800 words)

	Amputation & Execution of Women in Vaishnavism. Mass Murder of Women in Hinduism, Genocide of Lesbians, Devouring by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Often, the Hindus then eat the pieces of the dead wife according to the beastly ritual of Vedic cannibalism, an act fully justified in the Vedas as `purushamedha' and `naramedha'.
		This cannibalist consumption of the flesh of murdered women is fully sanctioned by the Vedas.
		Hindu husbands who eat the flesh of their own wives may be pious followers of the Vedas, but they are, in any civilized society, brute beasts.
	www.dalitstan.org /books/gowh/gowh3.html (2496 words)

	Woman's Bite Delivers Flesh-eating Bacteria
		"Human bites are usually more serious and prone to infection than those inflicted by animals," the authors write.
		The researchers were aware of only two other cases in which necrotizing fasciitis occurred due to a human bite.
		One man ended up with a case after biting the inside of his own cheek and a second man ended up with a case after receiving a bite on the penis.
	www.personalmd.com /news/a1999081311.shtml (345 words)

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		Human existence thus experienced and a cosmos thus structured cannot be called good; their salvation must come from their dissolution, from the elimination of those antagonisms which are encountered universally.(5) The experience of all qualification of reality and of all differentiation as injustice, as strife and pain puts limits upon what salvation can mean.
		The "one flesh" of Mary's conception of her Lord is identically the "one flesh" of the Church's celebration of her Head, the sacramental consummation of the New Covenant which she, in the integral freedom of her worship, conceived.
		The marital dialectic of the Eucharistic 'one flesh' is eliminated with the elimination of all concrete presence of the sacrificed and sacrificing Christ to his Body, to the Bride for whom the sacrifice is offered and by which she is created through the gift to her, in her history, of the Spirit.
	itest.slu.edu /dloads/70s/sexuality.txt (17951 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chopped-up human bones with marks indicating systematic cutting and scraping, suggesting that groups of people were killed and butchered, the meat carefully cut away at the tendons and roasted.
		Richard Marlar, a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, is involved with the cannibalism case.
		He and his co-workers have found tools with human blood on them, the pot that cooked the human flesh and one coprolite that had evidence of the human flesh in it.
	www.priweb.org /ed/ICTHOL/ICTHOL02_peer_review_papers/11.html (487 words)

	Exploring News & Features - Giving cannibalism a human face
		Eating enemies was an intentional expression of anger and disdain for the enemy.
		In discussions with older people, she learned that some were uncomfortable with the practice of burial, considering it to be a less respectful and less comforting way to treat the passing of someone you care about.
		Reconsidering the range of meanings that consuming substances from the human body had for people in the past is important, Conklin says, because it challenges the negative stereotypes of cannibalism that have often been used to denigrate and stigmatize native peoples.
	exploration.vanderbilt.edu /news/news_cannibalism_nsv.htm (1605 words)

	Cannibalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Eating enemies was an intentional _expression of anger and disdain for the enemy.
		Conklin adds, “In the past, the idea of leaving the body of a loved one in the dirt and letting it rot was as repulsive to the Wari’ as the idea of eating human flesh is to us.” Through endocannibalism, the Wari’ were spiritually reunited with their loved ones.
		The survivors admitted to eating the flesh of the deceased, one by one, after each teammate consented to provide their bodies for food after they died.
	dana.ucc.nau.edu /~js259/Short.htm (993 words)

	Minding the Planet: Medicine
		In a worrying development, part of a mutated human influenza virus related to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was found in a virus in pigs in South Korea.
		A leading researcher claims that he is certain that some humans alive today will live to be 150 due to changes in the human lifespan.
		Adding new evidence that is sure to lend credence to the 100+ year old "cancer microbes" hypothesis, a recent study has found that a doxycycline, a common antibiotic, appears to "shut off" aggressive liver cancer -- causing cancer cells to stop reproducing and behave normally as long as it is administered.
	novaspivack.typepad.com /nova_spivacks_weblog/medicine (7064 words)

	The Blood Transfusion Taboo of Jehovah's Witnesses
		Certain biblical doctrines as interpreted by followers of particular religious groups, were, and still are, at odds with established medical practice, creating "a degree of tension between the medicine of the soul and the medicine of the body" (1).
		One of them, apparently worried about one of its implications, was reassured by the editorial staff that "human copulation for the reproduction of mankind cannot be viewed as a blood transfusion from the male to the female".
		To stress the imaginary danger of contagion with less enviable psychological donor traits, in conformity with the biblical adage "the soul of the flesh is in the blood", the Society regularly quoted from a type of literature which in medical circles would probably be considered controversial.
	www.watchtowerinformationservice.org /blood.html (7440 words)

	Come a little closer now.... \| MetaFilter
		Deep in the recesses of the human heart, lurking guiltily beneath the threshold of consciousness, there may lie a depraved craving — for the forbidden taste of human flesh.
		The reference to artifacts of human teeth marks on bones and human proteins found in remains of feces relates to the finding of cannibalism among the pre-historic Arizona Anasazi as their civilization collapsed in the 10th century.
		The anthropologists Michael Harner and Marvin Harris surmised that Aztec human sacrifice on the grand scale was, like animal sacrifcie everywhere, the redistribution of meat, but in the valley of Mexico, under the pressure of population and a lack of large meat animals, the meat was human.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/25048 (3190 words)

	Exploring News & Features - Brief history of cannibal controversies
		Pieces of mummified human flesh imported from Egypt were considered a general panacea and were widely prescribed by the physicians of the day, Conklin reports.
		Although he acknowledged that starving individuals have been driven to eat human flesh from time to time, he suggested that cannibalism may never have existed anywhere as a socially accepted practice.
		They analyzed the fossilized remains of human excrement from a site containing butchered human bones and found evidence of myoglobin, a human enzyme that is found in muscle tissue but not in the digestive tract.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /exploration/news/news_cannibalism_pt2.htm (1361 words)

	A taste for human flesh IE Maneaters. : Fool Moon
		In most cases this involves a lone human who is either attacked outright because the opportunity arose or who is incapacitated in some way and can not defend itself.
		The point of course is that pigs are not wild predators (at least not in these cases) and so can not be said to have had the intent of dining on human flesh.
		Humans will always be on the menu, as long as there are other meat eating creatures out there, and guess what, alot of insects eat meat too.
	foolmoon.com /showflat.php?Number=249120 (1255 words)

	Human Botfly, Bot Fly, Botflies, Torsalo, Dermatobia hominis
		Parasitism by the botfly does not affect the edibility of the rabbit (assuming you eat rabbit), generally the area adjacent to the warble is trimmed away, and the rest of the rabbit is suitable to eat.
		I believe the human bot fly is the only regular cause of myiasis (feeding on living flesh by fly larvae) in humans.
		Because human myiasis is exceedingly rare even in endemic areas, correct diagnosis outside the endemic area is difficult because of unfamiliarity with the disease.
	www.ambergriscaye.com /pages/town/botfly.html (10614 words)

	Issue 61 News in Brain and Behavioral Sciences - Ian Pitchford, Editor
		This reaction might seem exclusive to humans but, as a recent paper in Science shows, something similar is observed in mice that lack a receptor for corticotropin-releasing hormone.
		- In women with bulimia nervosa and polycystic ovaries, resolution of the eating disorder is associated with improvements in ovarian morphology, according to a report by British researchers.
		Their main conclusion is that there is a logical necessity of genetically determined components of human language.
	human-nature.com /nibbs/issue61.html (1347 words)

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		Eating the sprouts in salads is also very beneficial, so let some of your plantings go to seed.
		Popular in Chinese medicine, it is often used in conjunction with ginseng and Dang Qui.
		It is an important Chinese medicine that is prescribed for fevers, colds, hypertension, insomnia, headaches, hepatitis, diphtheria, shingles, PMS, anxiety and depression.
	www.eonseed.com /catalog501.html (9846 words)

	Unusual patient cases help UCSD researchers link toxin to development of 'flesh-eating' bacterial infections
		SLS is one of the most potent toxins known, able to kill a wide variety of human cell types in laboratory testing.
		Physicians had speculated for years that SLS could play a role in the tissue destruction seen in severe human GAS infections, but proof was lacking since SLS had never been fully purified nor was there an understanding of the mechanism by which the bacteria produce the toxin.
		Co-first authors of the paper in The Lancet were Deepali Humar, M.D., infectious diseases fellow, UCSD Department of Medicine, and Vivekananda Datta, M.D., Ph.D. candidate in molecular pathology, UCSD Department of Pediatrics.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-01/uoc--upc011002.php (808 words)

	Going through the motions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		What we do know now, thanks to Richard A. Marlar of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and his colleagues, is that during the abandonment or shortly after, human beings were butchered, cooked and eaten, on the site, by other human beings.
		Tests show that human myoglobin is distinct from myoglobin from a wide range of animals eaten by the Anasazi or Pueblo people of the American southwest.
		The clincher was the chance discovery of a dried lump of human faeces, deposited on a hearth in one of the pit houses.
	www.nature.com /nsu_new/000907/000907-9.html (596 words)

	Medicine and the Body: Reading Notes
		They show a form of existence into which a human could be born "with terrifying ease." Gaki eat human detritus, including feces; they "commingle invisibly with humans," who are unaware of being surrounded by them.
		Chinese depicted human body schematically, as "a peg-doll whose role is to be a carrier of corporeal and/or sartorial attributes." The former may be merely superficial, or express the "heart/mind" (xin), "the psychological field of force that is attempting to control the body," revealing itself in physical structure or posture.
		Money here and always in Dickens "is just a metaphor for human flesh"; "all value is produced at the expense of life." Old Harmon isolates self from life by building a mountain of garbage, all detritus of others' lives converted to inorganic form.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~nsivin/read414.html (15946 words)

	Cannibalism Normal For Early Humans? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Summary Genetic markers commonly found in modern humans all over the world could be evidence that our earliest ancestors were cannibals, according to new research.
		Scientists from England, Australia, and Papua New Guinea say that cannibalism is the most likely explanation for their discovery that genes protecting against brain diseases that can be contracted by eating contaminated flesh have long been spread throughout the world.
		A growing body of evidence, such as piles of human bones with clear signs of human butchery, suggests cannibalism was widespread among ancient cultures.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/04/0410_030410_cannibal.html (684 words)

	Lichen Use, Sorted by Taxon
		Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada.
		Carminative and aphrodisiac; has been considered to be useful in dyspepsia, spermatorrhoea, amenorrhoea, calcui, diseases of the blood and heart, stomach disorders, enlarged spleen, bronchitis, bleeding piles, scabies, leprosy, excessive salivation, soreness of the throat, toothache, and pain in general.
		Notes: used for medicinal purposes, especially as an expectorant and in the treatment of ulcers.
	www.lichen.com /usetaxon.html (9780 words)

	3. Bone appétite
		She says outsiders brought industrial products, foreign diseases, and a visceral hostility to eating human flesh.
		The repellent rituals regarding victuals were actually performed by in-laws, while the closest relatives, figuratively speaking, left their forks on the table.
		Emotionally, she says, the eating showed that the "person who had died was no longer one of the eaters, but was in the process of transformation to a different form, to one of the eaten.
	whyfiles.org /164cannibal/3.html (1057 words)

	Flesh-Eating Bacteria Controversy (Morgana's Observatory)
		The name "flesh-eating-bacteria" is a little sensational, but essentially, the bacteria do "eat flesh." They attack the subcutaneous (soft) tissue, which then becomes gangrenous.
		In late 1996, Donald E. Low, MD and colleagues reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that children with chickenpox have among the highest risks for invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) disease.
		Steven Harris of the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department said the elderly man had a moderate strain of the bacterial infection that usually isn't fatal, and that age was likely a factor in his death.
	www.dreamscape.com /morgana/amalthea.htm (1225 words)

	Cannibalism
		The word cannibalism is also used in a zoological sense to refer to the eating of any animal species by another member of the same species.
		In some rituals the deceased body was eaten by relatives, as a manner of reverence for their ancestors, or in a pious desire for the soul of the dead to be reborn in the body of the consumer.
		Survivors, who made their way out early in 1847, had been forced to resort to eating the flesh of their dead comrades to survive.
	www.occultopedia.com /c/cannibalism.htm (967 words)

	Sacrifice
		The Wu--who were seers, medicine men, and sorcerers--and their associates--the diviners (people who told fortunes or predicted the future)--were the mediums between the supernatural world and the human world.
		Human sacrifices were preferred...During penitential rites, all people would bleed themselves, and in order to make the wounds more memorable they would use the spine of a stingray" [WR:Eliade:53, Aztecs did ritual cannibalism, p.55]
		A man or woman digging plans to be used as medicine in the eastern United States always left tobacco at the spot, in payment--if not, the cure would not be efficacious.
	www.christian-thinktank.com /cross2.html (7182 words)

	Genome-wide analysis provides detailed understanding of flesh-eating bacteria epidemics
		The Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, with which Dr. Musser is also affiliated, also contributed to the project.
		In addition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 9,000 cases of severe GAS disease were reported in 2002.
		NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-07/nioa-gap072104.php (679 words)

	USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
		They said, (to the companions of the Prophet), "Have you got any medicine with you or anybody who can treat with Ruqya?" The Prophet's companions said, "You refuse to entertain us, so we will not treat (your chief) unless you pay us for it." So they agreed to pay them a flock of sheep.
		The Prophet forbade the eating of wild animals having fangs.
		Allah's Apostle said, "If a fly falls in the vessel of any of you, let him dip all of it (into the vessel) and then throw it away, for in one of its wings there is a disease and in the other there is healing (antidote for it) i e.
	www.usc.edu /dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/071.sbt.html (5183 words)

	New Scientist - The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simply swallowing a pill, or eating a specific food supplement may permanently change your behaviour for the better, or reverse diseases
		The move will slow the spread of the virus and reduce human exposure to it, but might also hasten the evolution of a virus that is already changing fast
		A leading US researcher says he believes ethical rules on the procurement of human eggs were broken and that he was misled about the issue
	www.newscientist.com /news.ns (1025 words)

	Cannibalism - Orient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the past it was uncivilized pagan tribes people, or those without any belief in any form of god, that ate human flesh.
		A captive and later escaped Jesuit, one of the early martyrs of North America, was made to show his disfigured hands —their fingers had been gnawed off by indian women— publicly in France.
		The following photographs are the first published that show people from a presumably civilized nation eating human beings.
	www.trosch.org /lif/cannibalism.html (748 words)

	Salt Spring News :: Daily News Of and For Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
		Like the human ghouls that sometimes surround the deathbed of a rich relative, the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) gets underway in Tunisia this week.
		And they include the prohibition on the use of chemical or biological weapons, the prohibition on the intentional targeting of civilians and the prohibition on torture; cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment.
		For decades, Canadians were at the forefront of efforts to protect human beings during times of both peace and war.
	www.saltspringnews.com (10901 words)

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