'Man is a conscious  bi-ped  animal , maybe, at the highest rung of the ladder of Life -machine.
Man has been  given the verdict of 'supremacy ' with five special factors :

I.  Erection of Spine . (Balancing  economy)
II  Liberation of his hands .(freedom of action) 
III Apposition of thumbs ( skill) .
IV.  Binocular  Vision( Analytic Vision) .  
V.  And - dropping off of the tail.'

And with above words my anatomy  professor (1949), Dr Pashupati Bose M.B.B.S (only) would add  further :
 -'though some of you have not dropped them,- as yet !'

And  due to his  master-teaching skill , I could not forget the  lines  even in 2012.

Next time  I shall tell  his way of telling  how this 'bi-ped' animal-man grows  and also suffers due to law of Nature and also due to his own faults and follies.

FALSE  FAITH :

Your external physique and shape is nothing without your  VITAL  Organs. They are:

1 The Brain

ii. the Breathing organ  - the Lungs

iii. The heart - the central pump.

iv, the Liver -The metabolic, the storage,the 

    digestive ,the Detoxicating and Protective

    organ.

v. The Excretory  organ --the kidney.

vi. finally the Reproductive organs -the testes/ovary,the genitals , the uterus.

[Endocrine  Glands deserve a V.I.P  Class and has been spoken of in another BLOG]

Longevity (Life span) of a being is 5-times the biological growth i.e 5 -into-25 =125(+/-) in case of man.

We live by assault (irregularity,addiction,negative passions, greed,imbalance, rat-race,jealousy etc. And then we  blame  our neighbours ,fate  or the Divine).

Finally  -'man is what  & how he eats and drink' (physical aspect affecting body & mind).

* I  used to tell my patients  and Students(medical) --'Income-Tax ' should be decided by the girth of the tummy also i.e Rs 1000/-(India) [ or $ 1000/-for Western-s] per month(duration) for every inch of one whose  tummy is larger than his chest (pregnancy --exempted).

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Human-s are only a BI-PID (Two-legged)Animals with potential expanding Consciousness. That's all. Most of the other biological beings  have more sensory and executive potential than man. [shall write about on it some other time]

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*** This is only a  lay-mans  soliliquy and not a scholarly exposure.

"  Aspirin may help fight  11 cancers" -The The Times   Of India , kolkata, Saturday , March 10, 2012, Front  page.
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'ASPIRIN'  -never   dies and ever returns !
I , in spite with my M.D degree with Cardiology as specialised , have Retired and Given up Practice - more than 20 yrs now.
In student life  i learnt that Aspirin was discovered as a beneficial drug almost by accident (?on blind trial on Diabetic Patients ).
Even before and since, instead of being n the 'Obsolete' list  Aspirin has been re-incarnated myriad of times and even  found to be  essential or beneficial in so many  diseases , old and new.
  Now 'Ecotrin (U.S.A) and Ecospirin (India)i.e aspirin in 100 to 200 mg strength is competing even the 'Profit-Market ' of  long -term  Anti-depressive drugs !
 I have been  talking Ecotrin/Ecospirin  by my own choice, for many years  now(I am 80 +).
As a doctor in the past, I learnt that the important function of aspirin is that it stimulates the physiological level of Corticosteroid function even in ageing and degenerative phage of life  and is emergncy-friend[like USA 911] in many diseases, known  &  U-known !
  I advice all aging people (above 45) to  help themselves with a low dosage (70 to 80mg/day) to balace and for 'servicing' of their internal physical -world.


To me ,Aspirin  is like  Einstein's  Cosmological -Constant or Speed of  Light  that never dies inspite of  Expanding Uniniverse or  Experiment of CERN [with Neutrino].