Medicine in Transition: Fecal Transplants

My parents grew up on rural farms.  One day as a kid I was having a grand old time on a hulking fertilizer cart in a granddad’s barnyard.  Mom came out of the house and was – to say the least – distressed.  It turned out the cart’s technical name was “manure spreader”.  Mom had …

Hawking the Good Stuff

My folks relocated a few weeks before I entered high school.  The house we moved into was an inglorious shade of brown mustard that Mom described as pumpkin-colored.   She tolerated it until the day when Dad – with farm-bred slyness – called it “cat-manure yellow”.  After that she’d settle for nothing but gleaming white, so …