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This diagram depicts some of the physical and physiologic factors that affect the thermoreceptor (TR) discharge rate and consequently the temperature sensed in an examiner's skin in contact with a patient's skin. The temperature and its rate of change of the...

Easter crowds waiting for the pot smashing ceremony..... and the midnight fireworks show over the main square.Corfu's Easter celebrations are famous, attracting as they do tens of thousands of tourists, from all over Greece, and beyondThere are processions and brass...

natural or synthetic - your choice!This is a short posting - I've a lot of editing etc to complete, but this cannot be let go.You may have seen on the news, or in a paper, the blitz of propaganda against vitamin supplements?Don't swallow the hype......don't believe...

Corfu Garden - springtime 2008I tried to focus on just one subject for this posting, but the multitude of topics swirling through my mind make it pretty well impossible to select just one, so I won't. Instead I'll try to sort out what I really really think about a...

Sometime in the early 1980s I became aware of patients with problems that could be associated with yeast overgrowth (candida) in their intestinal tracts.These were people who often suffered from a variety of apparently unrelated symptoms, including chronic fatigue,...

These photo show Dumbo with Sasha, with me in Corfu Town (Liston), and on his own in our meadow under the olive trees.When I was very young - well around 11 - my Mother, Irene, acquired a pet miniature dachshund.A brief explanation is called for here. My brother and I...

Last weekend I was in Dublin, at the National Training Center where I periodically teach on an advanced Neuromuscular Therapy training course.I love Dublin for many reasons, and Guiness is one of them. No matter what anyone says, the local brew, in its' native land,...

Photograph: Hannah & her parents Jon & Terry (from: Atlanta Journal Constitution)In November 2006 a secret (at that time) decision by the US Courts of Federal Claims conceded that vaccination was the cause of autism in a specific case. The ruling was made by US...

I went to the Regent Street Apple store today to buy a new MacBookAir laptop computer (see picture). This slimline, aesthetically magnificent machine, weighing in at well under a kilo, and with a number of scintillating features, is due to be a replacement for my...

This image is taken from Google ImagesIf additional credit is required please contact meTo understand the relevance of this image to my cold....read onI have a cold...or rather I had one Earlier this week I started with the usual (for me) scratchy throat, followed by...

Hypericum - St.John's Wort This is a brief posting as time pressures are reducing my opportunities to detox via this superb medium.I am writing this because this morning's news from the BBC regarding antidepressant use was really upbeat, from my perspective, since it...

Photographs in this posting show:Bernarr Macfaddden (aged 65)Stanley LiefBoris Chaitow (giving NMT treatment)My Grandfathers General Store in Pilgrim's Rest (1915) - now a museum town,where this building remains as a restaurant.Those shown in the photo are (L to...