dear all

many peasants in the alps are telling that is ver good
for the stomach with kindlings and ulcer to eat a
living slug or nude terrestrial snail. Where this
story or the fame is coming I don't know, but you
can hear this at every time. You should gulp (?) such
a slug living when you have stomach problems.
with best regards
sieglinde

 --- "Orstan, Aydin" <[log in to unmask]>
schrieb: > I find it hard to believe the stomach acid
didn't
> kill or at least
> inactivate the slug. I believe the stomach &
> intestine constantly shed dead
> epithelium cells. So their presence in the gut
> contents of a slug (assuming
> it was indeed alive in the patient's body) doesn't
> neceesarily mean that it
> was feeding on live tissue.
>
> Aydin
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Henk and Zvia Mienis
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 January, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Limacus flavus and a human being
>
>
>
> Dear ConchLers,
>
> If the memory is not working anymore as it used to
> be then you start writing
> nonsense. So it happened with the slug Limacus
> flavus found in a dead body.
> Today I came across the true story.
>
> Forcart, L., 1967. Un cas de preudo-parasitisme de
> Limax flavus L. Journal
> de Conchyliologie, 106 (4): 129.
>
> This story runs as follows:
>
> A patient from Samsun hospitalized in Ankara,
> Turkey, vomitted a living slug
> with a length of 36 mm. The preserved slug was
> identified by Lothar Forcart
> as belonging to Limax flavus, now Limacus flavus, a
> common species in
> Turkey. His colleague Prof. Scheidegger carried out
> an examination of the
> gut contents of the slug and besides plant tissue
> found cells of human
> epithelium i.e. the slug had actually eaten from the
> intestines or stomach
> wall of the patient. The first case of a slug living
> in a human being!
>
> Sorry, no forensic snail-stuff.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Henk K. Mienis
>
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>
>

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