Dispensary Corner 16 Jun 10
June 16, 2010
REFORMED former Black
Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne
(PD yesterday) is putting his
experience of hard living to good
use, with the debut of a new
health advice column in the UK’s
The Sunday Times Magazine.
In the “Ask Dr Ozzy” article last
weekend Osbourne made an
intriguing suggestion to help stop
youth smoking rates.
A mother who had asked him
how to discourage her teenage
son from cigarettes was given a
few ideas, including: “throw some
fag ash on his cornflakes”.
Osbourne’s column this week
also included his thoughts on
cocaine, antidepressants and
chemotherapy - with the editors
adding the caveat that “Ozzy
Osbourne is not a qualified
medical professional. Caution is
advised”.
THE president of Venezuela has
come up with a new cure for
insomnia, suggesting that people
finding difficulty sleeping should
watch his televised speeches.
Speaking at an official function
Hugo Chavez he said he was
surprised that children sometimes
stopped him in the street to say
they had seen him on TV.
“It seems that there are mothers
here who, instead of putting their
kids to sleep with cartoons, put
them to sleep with Chavez,” he
said.
SOME truly scientific relics have
gone on display in Florence, Italy
this week - a tooth, thumb and
finger cut from the body of
pioneering physicist, astronomer
and mathematician Galileo Galilei.
Dubbed ‘the father of modern
science’, Galileo died in 1642
and apparently historians and
scientists cut the body parts from
his corpse during an arcane burial
ceremony which took place 95
years later.
Discovered by an art collector
last year, the remains are now the
main attraction at the city’s newly
reopened Galileo Museum - along
with two telescopes, a compass and
other instruments he designed.
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