Phlebonics

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/21/2010 12:32 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Isn't there also an auxiliary branch of medicine known as
>"phlebonics," where they draw your blood or something? This is not to
>be confused with that infamous bit of quacksalvery known as
>"fleabonics." Everybody knows that can't cancer be cured with any
>fleas, despite what those local-cable ads claim.

Are you thinking of phlebotonics?  The science of studying the
processes of blood coursing through meat-eating plants?  :-)

Joel

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