From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 23 19:25:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25861 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25806 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17268; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:25:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd017209; Mon Feb 23 20:25:31 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA16750; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:25:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802240325.UAA16750@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 03:25:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Feb 23, 98 08:09:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No, Terry's right, I saw reference to that in Science News, there was some > kind of chemical that a leech leaves behind that was actually beneficial > to the one who'd just been sucked. They weren't suggesting moving the > clock back 200 years, but they were trying to find ways to make use of > that chemical in modern medicine. I think that was about a year back, if > anyone wants to search www.sciencenews.org. Desirudin. It's a thrombin inhibitor. Apparently, it it causes elevated erythropoietin levels. I think the reference is: "Current Concepts: Erythropoietin Therapy" The New England Journal of Medicine March 27, 1997 -- Volume 336, Number 13 Lawrence T. Goodnough, Terri G. Monk, Gerald L. Andriole Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message