Wierd Things you've found inside... (was Smoking around computers))

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Thu Dec 13 17:02:10 2001

> (I was amazed seeing back 80-90
> years ago that over 50% of the folks that died in my town were diagnosed
> with "consumption"... I wonder what consumed them? Maybe squirrels??? ;-)

'Consumption' was an old term for tuberculosis.

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