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[ted <music AT thenightshades.com>]

on 9/2/04 11:52 AM, homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org at
homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> 
> I wonder : would an inoculation/transfusion of
> kinfolks blood carry antibodies/immunity in it ??
> 
> Toni

I know that poison oak/ivy/sumac was a plant of 1000 uses for aborigines in
this continent. They ate out of baskets made of it, everything. I understand
some Crows beat themselves with branches of it in the sweat lodge!

I've often guessed that immunity was passed along in the mother's milk-
could well be the cradle was made of poison ivy too.

I wonder if I just encountered it too late in life- I get it bad.
Ted