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   Message 18,442 of 19,139   
   Debra Dee McQueen Freeman to Lardy Girl   
   Re: Homeopathy   
   03 Oct 17 00:49:35   
   
   From: dfreemans@live.com   
      
   On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 1:50:59 PM UTC-4, Lardy Girl wrote:   
   > No, that subject line doesn't mean that I'm going to post a thousandth   
   > of an anagram, whatever that might be.   
   >   What I think is quite a fitting anagram follows this background:   
   >   
   > In Manchester, Connecticut, doctors detected unusually high lead   
   > levels in a nine-month-old baby's blood, which prompted local   
   > public-health authorities to investigate the cause.  The girl had not   
   > eaten flakes of lead-based paint from windows in her home; the source   
   > was much more accessible to her.  She had been using a homeopathic   
   > 'healing bracelet' as designed, chewing on it to ease teething pain.   
   > Spacer beads in the bracelet, which her parents had bought at a   
   > local fair, were found to have a lead content of 17,000 parts per   
   > million, somewhat above the legal limit of 100 ppm.  Efforts to locate   
   > the maker of the bracelet were unsuccessful.   
   >   
   >   Healing bracelet = Begin lethal care   
   >   
   >   
   > --   
   > A n n a  S h e f l  - For email, substitute 'usenet' for its anagram   
   >   - "Never eat more than you can lift."  --Miss Piggy -   
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   Wow...that's a good one!   
      
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