Re: Coffin From Civil War Uncovers Mystery

[Guest guest]

Ho Hum. This seems kind of silly to me. 1848 isn't that long ago really.

There are people still living today that were born in 1900 or there abouts

who probably had relatives that were born about that time. They could just

ask them. They should also be plenty of records still available on style

and burial practices. I don't get what all the hub-bub is about really.

Pneumonia is a good guess. A lot of people died of pneumonia back then.

A neat find but you'd think they had found something from B.C. or

thereabouts. Anything to legitimize the expense I guess.

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Coffin From Civil War Uncovers Mystery

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%

2F20050804%2F2206671543.htm & sc=1501 & ewp=ewp_news_0805war_coffin

``This is a person and we want to tell this person's story. She is

our primary obligation,'' anthropologist Doug Owsley said as the lid

was lifted to reveal a young body wrapped in a brown shroud.

[Guest guest]

Barb,

I think you might be missing the reason for the post as it pertains

to us today. Many on this board have been misdiagnosed with

pneumonia, (many people, even some nurses I have spoken to did not

realize that there is a fungal pneumonia. They were only taught

about viral or bacterial) many people here also have adhesions on

their lungs from mold. We also have people here who have the

calcifying of their lymph nodes.

I was being sarcastic about the comment, wonder what toxins they are

testing for. They will test a body over 200 years old and totally

neglect to test those that are living today.

KC

> Ho Hum. This seems kind of silly to me. 1848 isn't that long ago

really.

> There are people still living today that were born in 1900 or

there abouts

> who probably had relatives that were born about that time. They

could just

> ask them. They should also be plenty of records still available

on style

> and burial practices. I don't get what all the hub-bub is about

really.

> Pneumonia is a good guess. A lot of people died of pneumonia back

then.

> A neat find but you'd think they had found something from B.C. or

> thereabouts. Anything to legitimize the expense I guess.

> ----- Original Message -----

> Coffin From Civil War Uncovers Mystery

>

> By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

> http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%

> 2F20050804%2F2206671543.htm & sc=1501 & ewp=ewp_news_0805war_coffin

>

> ``This is a person and we want to tell this person's story. She is

> our primary obligation,'' anthropologist Doug Owsley said as the

lid

> was lifted to reveal a young body wrapped in a brown shroud.

[Guest guest]

KC,

I didn't mean to ask why was it posted. It is an interesting find but the

coverage it is getting seems out of proportion. 150 years ago isn't that

long ago and there are lots and lots of records, photos, etc from back then.

First it sounded like cast iron was novel, then it was revealed it was

common back in mid 1980's but this was unusual since it was well sealed. As

for pneumonia, if they don't test people walking around with it now, I doubt

they will test the mumified boy for it. Perhaps someone like Dr Shoemaker

could suggest searching for a fungal link for research sake.

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From: " tigerpaw2c " <tigerpaw2C@...>

Barb,

I think you might be missing the reason for the post as it pertains

to us today. Many on this board have been misdiagnosed with

pneumonia, (many people, even some nurses I have spoken to did not

realize that there is a fungal pneumonia. They were only taught

about viral or bacterial) many people here also have adhesions on

their lungs from mold.