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I am impressed with your Dr. Macht research in the bio section. Here is a tip for further research regarding Dr. macht being a snake venom expert as reported by the NY times.
Here is the quote:
"I obtained a New York Times article in which Dr David Macht, a leading authority on cobra snake venom, claimed cobras hear the music of snake charmers and that the Bible agrees with this but that biologists since the time of Shakespeare had taught that snakes are deaf. (1954 January 10 Section 4 page 9)"
taken from: http://www.adam.com.au/bstett/BWilliamsvsAnon71to73.htm
Also see:
"Dr. David I. Macht, research pharmacologist of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, is one of the world’s leading authorities on cobra snake venom. (Cobra venom is an accepted medication, in blood disorders for instance.)
Dr. Macht reported that in working with cobras and cobra venom he became acquainted with a number of Hindu physicians, well educated, and from different parts of India. All agreed that cobras respond to some musical tones"
taken from: http://www.adam.com.au/bstett/BCobra94.htm
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00:39, 14 August 2005 (UTC)kdbuffalo
Regarding the addition -
This seems a bit unclear - Macht's phytopharmacology clearly works in detecting gross effects of phytoxins, and similar systems are used today (e.g. in testing weedkillers). What is clearly unscientific is Macht's extrapolation of phytoxic effects to zootoxic effects - something which I feel is demonstrated in the preceding paragraphs. Adding the above sentence seems unnecessarily argumentative. MickWest 02:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't know how to fix this.
In the Medicine in the Bible section the foot note on the bullet for Pharmacological Appreciation of References to Alcohol in the Hebrew Bible is #6 and points to the reference for An Experimental Pharmacological Appreciation of Leviticus XI and Deuteronomy XIV and vice versa. I can't figure out what is causing this. Can some other editor fix this? Pzavon 01:25, 9 September 2007 (UTC)