Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Does Your Pharmacy Carry Dried Frogs?

How about dried seahorses? Megan & Erin, since you're pre-pharmacy, could you tell us what these specimens might be good for?

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  1. Well, I had to go look it up...but I think I found it!
    Basically, there are certain bonds in animal tissues that persist. This means that animal tissue may contain biologically active peptide bonds that survive preparation procedures(antimicrobial) and can act therapeutically to a wound.
    If that made any sense....

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  2. they are used to cure fire cupping marks

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