April 21, 2005

"The Mice Appeared Unconscious.."

Artificial hypothermia With hydrogen sulfide to prevent stroke damage.

From the warning label, if, as was right, poets govern'd our lives.


Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this
distilled liquor drink thou off;
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease;
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou liv'st;
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,
Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;
Each part, deprived of supple government,
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death;
And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

-Friar Laurence - Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene I

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