“A burp is a tranquilizer, a fart is an activator, and a hiccup is an aggravator.”

According to Samuel Thomson (1769-1843) …

“Much of what is at this day called medicine, is deadly poison, and were people to know what is offered them of this kind they would absolutely refuse ever to receive it as a medicine.”

He saturated bread in the grease and washed it all down with coffee containing a half-cup of white sugar.

He consumed fifteen pounds of sugar a month and a half-pint of salt.

He drank a daily pint of Thunderbird wine and smoked bunches of cigars.

Poor guy, he was nipped in the bud at the tender young age of 105.

(The story was in the Sunday edition of The Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1989, back when I was reading nine newspapers cover-to-cover almost every day of the week.)

He studied apes to help validate his theory of autointoxication.

He noticed that apes move their bowels at least three or four times per day.

Musically inexperienced listeners are just the opposite. They tend to recognize melodies with their left ear.

Humming a tune activates both brain hemispheres.