Re: Posting Pics
Aaah, thank you very much, Johnep!
I'm particularly interested in the 2nd photo, that shows what the tree/bush actually looks like- any chance in emailing it me in a larger size? Ta!
BTW, upon your recommendation earlier this year, I got myself a copy of Diarmuid Jefferies' History of Aspirin, and read it during my june hols; quite fascinating! I had no idea that Big Pharma had been up to its usual nasty tricks for over 100 years, such as coming up with deliberately complicated generic names knowing that doctors would never remember them by anything but the registered tradename...
I had a personal interest in the matter as my (german) paternal grandfather was a chemist for Hoechst Farbwerke in the 1920s & 30s, and was put in prison by the allies after the War... I never knew him, he died in prison of TB in 1963.
In the same vein: have you ever read "The Fever Trail: in search of the cure for malaria" by Mark Honigsbaum, or "The Plague Race", by Edward Marriott, about the discovery of the causes of the Plague by Yersin and Kitasato? In the words of david Mellor, "if you liked that, you'll like this!"
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