Today’s Headline of the Day comes from a University of Montreal press release: Simple spit and blood tests might detect burnout before it happens The press release goes on to say: Your blood and the level of a hormone in your spit could reveal if you’re on the point of burnout, according to research undertaken […]
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Indiscriminate expectoration
Indiscriminate expectoration — newly recognized as a prime, yet preventable means of spreading tuberculosis — gets the once-over in the essay “Indiscriminate Expectoration,” British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 2120, August 17, 1901, pp. 422-3. Two excerpts: “In America, where expectoration seems, if report be true, to be a kind of mental solace, laws have […]