Comments on: Sgt. Frog: A Manga Medical Review

By: Sean Duggan

Sean Duggan — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:19:27 +0000

Incidentally, I remember running into a few articles last year about how current research seems to be indicating that the causal link between aspirin and Reye’s Syndrome may be weaker than previously thought. Basically, it boiled down to that a) it’s been found that diagnoses of Reye’s Syndrome covered a wider spectrum of disorders than thought before b) there were some other common medicines being used such as anti-emetics in the cases studied and c) the frequency of Reye’s Syndrome did decrease after announcements were made about the possible link, but evidence points towards the decline starting prior to the announcements and uniformly in all countries, not just those who had the high publicity of the link. Unfortunately, I’m running dry on trying to find online links to those articles now. *shrug* It’s a difficult thing to settle, I guess, since no one is going to risk exposing a child to aspirin to verify the link. And, except for aspirin manufacturers, no one’s really harmed if there isn’t a link after all.

By: jose

jose — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:01:14 +0000

me and my brother found these mangna in good will they looked really interesting so we bought issue 3-9 and 11 and 12 so far they have been cool they were only $.48 there so who ever gave those up are really stupid and we are trying to find 1 and 2 and 10 and if they are more we are looking for those too keep up the good work tokyopop.

By: David

David — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:27:12 +0000

Seconded on the DollarManga recommendation. They recently had the first batch of IWJ volumes for about $3 a pop.

By: Shawn Fumo

Shawn Fumo — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 04:11:57 +0000

Nice work Scott.. I need to get the next issue of Sgt. Frog soon. BTW, if you want to grab Iron Wok Jan, dollarmanga.com seems to be the way to go. I’m not sure how long that site is going to last with the changes happening at ComicsOne lately…

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:37:06 +0000

Manga, medicine and cooking? Now that sounds like a combination for me. I’ll take a look next chance I get…

By: David

David — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:36:21 +0000

Scott, have you ever read any volumes of IRON WOK JAN? It’s a fun title in general, but every volume contains around three recipes highlighting traditional Chinese medicinal cooking (mostly cold, flu, and fever remedies). You might find that aspect of it interesting.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 02:10:02 +0000

An antipyretic is a medication that can reduce a fever.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 01:54:11 +0000

What’s an antipyretic?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:39:51 +0000

I’d heard (ages ago, on PBS) that certain South American (specifically, I think, chilean? They herd alpaca, I think, if that helps) native groups did in fact have a higher average body temperature than caucasians, and that this was an adaptation to higher altitude and cooler temperatures.

By: Steve Pheley

Steve Pheley — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:17:20 +0000

“Do NOT tell the doctor or nurse that your temperature was only 99�, but that�s a fever for you because your temperature always runs lower than normal. We�ll nod our heads and smile, but we won�t believe you.”

D’oh! I thought my temperature really did always run lower than normal…