Thanks to Mrs. Gagg’s packrat tendencies, I now have a new treatment for colds in my armamentarium - for elephants at least                              .

Digging through the apparently endless boxes of memorabilia, the missus came up with a moldering, yellowed November 1942 copy of The Stars and Stripes (the daily newspaper of the US armed forces in Europe - published in London). In this was reported the shenanigans of one Indiana circus elephant named Modoc. Read the rest of this post here »

Talkativeness in the patient is to be discouraged.

There, now you will think I am some curmudgeonly, controlling, obnoxious doctor - and, yes there are some times when . . . . .

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