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>                   ...  Cortisone can be a nasty drug,
>so be careful.

	Yes, the drug does have quite an effect mentally and emotionally,
more on some people than others.  I took it long ago and still remember
the horrible way it made me feel.  

	Last summer a good friend was totally incapacitated with poison
oak and the doctor gave her some cortisone.  She felt like she was
going crazy, was staying up unable to sleep and was very angry at things
that she would normally not care much about.  Although it did help that
I kept telling her it was the drug, she still was miserable while she was
taking it.  Still, looking back on it later, she says the oak was so bad
and the cortisone helped so much, she would do it again.


	Once I came upon an incredible sight.  One hot, windless day along
the flat top of a hill I came upon a huge patch of poison oak.  I couldn't
even see where it ended.  The poison oak was flowering and the whole
stand was alive with bees, bees, bees.  The humming was loud.  It looked
like a moving, buzzing net of bees.  To paraphrase one of Larson's cartoons..
"How nature says 'Keep away'."  I wonder what the honey was like.

	Speaking of which, I have before me the May-June issue of 
California Agriculture which features an article "Dairy goats used
to clear poison oak do not transfer toxicant to milk," (Kouakou, et al.).
In short, milk ok, urine ok, feces contained urushiol.  First part of
a 4-part project, further studies to determine, among other things if
"potentially immunoactive urushiol metabolites" are found in the milk.

Joan V