Whew!  I thought INH was "Ivor Noel Hume." <grin>

Linda Derry
Site Director
Old Cahawba Archaeological Site
719 Tremont Street
Selma, AL 36701-5446
334/875-2529
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Suzanne M. Gurenlian
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 9:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Tuberculosis
>
>
> INH is a drug used to maintain the integrity of the immune system
> after having
> been exposed to TB.  It is taken for a period of one year.  Ask me about
> SARS...now I have real experience there! R.L. Schuyler will tell
> you that I
> scared the beejeezus out of him. Especially when I came into his
> classroom and
> informed him that you either 1. Get better or 2. Die when exposed
> and contract
> SARS. I felt like Typhoid Mary and not Sister Mary!
> --
> It is within the boundries of love that you discover life.
>
>
> Quoting Ron May <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > What is INH?
> >
> > I am told that a cure for TB is to come down with Valley Fever, which of
> > course could of course scar or take your lungs. And, before you
> ask, Anita,
> > Valley
> > Fever has been caught when the top 6-inches of soil get disturbed in
> > prehistoric and historic archaeology sites in the American
> Southwest. Most
> > the folks
> > who I know had it came down with cold symptoms, but one had to have her
> > chest
> > cavity opened and scraped. Both TB and Valley Fever are scary thoughts.
> >
> > Ron May
> > Legacy 106, Inc.
> >
>