From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   On 2017-05-26, JAB  wrote:   
      
   > The year was 1945, and 2-year-old Lindy Thomson had been given a few   
   > weeks to live. She suffered from diarrhea and projectile vomiting, and   
   > she was so thin and weak, she could no longer walk. Her parents had   
   > taken her from doctor to doctor. Finally, Dr. Douglas Arnold in   
   > Buffalo, N.Y., offered a most unusual prescription: She was to eat   
   > bananas.   
   >   
   > "At least seven bananas a day," recalls the patient, who now goes by   
   > her married name, Lindy Redmond.   
      
   Every Peace Corps volunteer knows bananas are 'liquid glue' for the   
   loose of stool.  Just the thing before a 6 hour ride into the capital   
   where you can get some decent medical treatment.  Eat two more, for   
   luck.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)