Dark Banquet - Bill Schutt [99]
So named for the frill Karl Koopman, “Systematics and Distribution,” in Natural History of Vampire Bats, 7–17.
If you examine the hind limb bones William A. Schutt Jr., “Chiropteran Hindlimb Morphology and the Origin of Blood Feeding in Bats,” in Bat Biology and Conservation, ed. T. H. Kunz and P. Racey, 157–68. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1998).
Researchers in the 1970s Dona Howell and J. Pylka, “Why Bats Hang Upside-Down: A Biomechanical Hypothesis,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 69 (1977): 625–31.
Many bats have a structure called a calcar William A. Schutt Jr. and Nancy B. Simmons, “Morphology and Homology of the Chiropteran Calcar,” Journal of Mammalian Evolution 5, no. 1 (1998): 1–32.
Basically, what I’d proposed was similar William A. Schutt Jr. and J. Scott Altenbach, “A Sixth Digit in Diphylla ecaudata, the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat,” Mammalia 61, no. 2 (1997): 280–85.
Rather than feeding from below the branch J. Moojen, “Sanguivorismo de Diphylla ecaudata Spix em Gallus domesticus (L.),” O Campo 10 (1939): 70.
4: EIGHTY OUNCES
“It has been my unvaried rule” “The Death of George Washington, 1799,” Eye Witness to History, 2001, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com.
Soon after, the incision was made George Washington: Eyewitness Account of His Death,” 2003, http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/z_x01death_lear_g.htm.
In desperation, Dr. Dick Oscar Reiss, Medicine and the American Revolution (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 1998), 234–35.
Other suggestions included rubbing Ibid., 235.
For example, some ancient Egyptians Henry E. Sigerist, A History of Medicine, vol. 1: Primitive and Archaic Medicine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1951), 247.
The word blood shows up Douglas Starr, Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce (New York: Knopf, 1998), xiv.
Since the ancient Hebrews believed Kenneth Walker, The Story of Blood (New York: Philosophical Library, 1962), 20–22.
Galen and his contemporaries used a metal scalpel Bill Hayes, Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood (New York: Random House, 2005): 172–73.
In 1462 a bloodletting calendar Starr, Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce, 19.
Even drowning victims were bled Wendy Moore, The Knife Man (New York: Broadway Books, 2005), 187–88.
5: THE RED STUFF
Hemoglobin is so effective at carrying O2 Kenneth Walker, The Story of Blood (New York: Philosophical Library, 1962), 39.
There are so many erythrocytes Ibid., 37.
A year later, encouraged by Lower’s results Bill Hayes, Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood (New York: Random House, 2005), 52.
Then he received about six ounces Douglas Starr, Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce (New York: Knopf, 1998), 3–16.
Aneurysms can occur for any Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein, Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), 78–79.
Bloodletting was also used Ibid., 80.
In his book Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce Ibid., 15–16.
Porphyria (from the Greek word for “purple”) Matthew Bunson, The Vampire Encyclopedia (New York: Gramercy, 1993), 210.
In the 1960s two authors I. Macalpine and R. Hunter, “The Insanity of George III: A Classic Case of Porphyria,” British Medical Journal 1 (1966): 65–67.
The examination of several strands BBC News, King George III: Mad or Misunderstood, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/hi/health/388903.stm, 2004.
Recently, researchers have found evidence Andrew Bowser, “DG Dispatch—DDW: Blood-letting Improves Hepatitis C Patient Response to Interferon,” May 19, 1999, http://pslgroup.com/dg/fead6.htm.
Studies have shown that insulin resistance J. M. Fernandez-Real, G. Penarroja, A. Castro, F. Garcia-Bragado, I. Hernandez-Aguado, and W. Ricart, “Blood Letting in High-Ferritin Type 2 Diabetes: Effects on Insulin Sensitivity and Beta-Cell Function,” Diabetes 51, no. 4 (2002): 1000–4.
6: A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP
One Trinidadian genus has Roy T. Sawyer, Leech Biology and Behavior, vol. 1: Anatomy, Physiology, and Behaviour (Oxford,