Monday, January 14, 2013

My Great Pyrenees.

My Great Pyrenees, Mia, is what you would call a badger, because she has a mask of color across  her forehead. Most Great Pyrenees are all white, but sometimes they are born with badger markings.  Great Pyrenees are often stubborn, but with loving consistency, they can be trained out of it.  Great Pyrenees are very intelligent, and they have their unique personalities. They do funny things, such as carrying their food bowl around when its empty.  Mia lives to snuggle, and play. When Mia wants attention she has a funny habit of going into our rooms and getting stuff she knows shes not supposed to have, like clothes off our floor, or bath toys out of our bathroom. She once tipped over a water jug that I had left on the floor, after watering plants inside. When she saw that the jug was spilling out water, she picked it up by the spout so that it was up-rite again.  Over all, they are a wonderful breed, and I don't think I will ever get a different type of dog.

Thanks for reading!

-Katie

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The History of Medicine



   
The History of Medicine


  If you were sick in 1900, your doctor couldn't do much more than help you be comfortable until your body conquered the illness, or until the illness conquered you. The doctor had very little in his little black bag, although he did carry, morphine and aspirin to ease pain, quinine to fight off malaria, smallpox vaccine, and digitalis for heart failure.

   Oh how that little black bag has grown. Nowadays, we have medicine for almost every malady known to man! If you had a cold back in 1800 they didn’t have medicine to make you feel better.  As for now, there are approximately 13,000 prescription drugs on the market today, and several drugs can often be used to treat the same condition.