Fact of the Day: "The French superlative "c'est vache", meaning excellent, dates from the 19th-century Parisian practice of corralling cattle on street corners the better to extract fresh vaccine direct from the lymph glands." Honigsbaum, Mark. (2007) Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen [book review]. The Guardian Weekly 176(25), 37. BTW - the photo is from a fabric panel I have in my stash.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
C'est vache!
Fact of the Day: "The French superlative "c'est vache", meaning excellent, dates from the 19th-century Parisian practice of corralling cattle on street corners the better to extract fresh vaccine direct from the lymph glands." Honigsbaum, Mark. (2007) Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen [book review]. The Guardian Weekly 176(25), 37. BTW - the photo is from a fabric panel I have in my stash.
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