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Wally Day <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:29:31 -0800
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> > Surgery is not paleo because they didn't have Dr's
> then......
>
> Who says you need a doctor to perform surgery?  I
> have read
> accounts of Australian aborigines performing
> amputations *on
> themselves* when, for example, an animal bite became
> gangrenous.

Don't forget about the ancient skulls dug up (I can't
remember where) that had holes drilled in them to
release evil spirits. Of course we have no way of
knowing the success rate of that particular
surgery....

> Coffee "beans" are in fact berries.  I don't think
> they are
> edible, however.

Didn't someone recently post that there are, in fact,
primitive-type folks who do munch on raw coffee beans
(berries)? Or is that just another of my caffeine
induced hallucinations....
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