[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]bezoar stones ivory reworked

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    I know folks who've had kidney stones drilled and hung as necklaces. I
threatened to do that with my gallstones the first time I flushed my
gallbladder, but they were too mushy and soft. Saponified fats & bile, not
mineral accretions. However, some were really kind of pretty, in a rather
unpleasant way. The larger ones looked like multi colored raspberries . . .

    Sieggy


----- Original Message -----
> See: http://www.melfisher.org/bezoar.htm or
> Concretions of various kinds are occasionally
>  found in the brain, lungs, heart,
>  liver, kidneys, gall-bladder, intestines,
>  and urinary bladder. The stomachs of many
>  animals afford concretions of different kinds,
>  particularly those known under the
>  name of Bezoar Stones;
> found
> at:http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/icapb/collection/instructions/ACS.html
> Johnna Holloway
>
> "Mark.S Harris" wrote:>
> > Cindy commented:
> > > Um. I know you're trying to be gross, but... I saw some worked bezoar
> > > stones in a museum in Germany.
> >
> > Ok. And what are "bezoar stones"?> Stefan