Traveling Light and the Tyranny of Higher Expectations

Potter, Polyxeni

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Traveling Light and the Tyranny of Higher Expectations

Published Date:

Jan 2009

Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 15(1):140-141.

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Potter, Polyxeni

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"Three tribes of Babylonians," Herodotus wrote, "eat nothing but fish, which they catch and dry in the sun. They pound the dried fish in a mortar with a pestle and sift through a cloth then mix with liquid and bake like bread." Such are their customs, he reported, "Having no physicians, they bring the sick to the agora to receive advice from passers-by who have similar ailments."

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