A window into my new life

[nettabie]

"Lysozyme ... is present in certain of our bodily secretions too. We will provide onions to make you cry and lemons to make you salivate. Running up and down the New Museum site should bring up a sweat. Your first problem will be to get a sample of the relevant material in a form which can be assayed ... unless you weep profusely, tears leave the eyes by the tear duct, which leads from the inside coner of the mouth into the nose. Hence you should analyse snot if the onions don't cause tears to roll down your cheeks. If you think this is disgusting, you are probably right; but pause for a second to consider what must go on in hospital laboratories... anyway, it isn't compulsary."

Just, err.. thought I'd share.