bits of paper with notes need to be evacuated from my bag n files, n as i checked what was in them bef. disposing of, theres one i wantd to 'quote' as its such colorful description, altho wasnt sure what thread to put it in. it is really fr a medical book parts read bef., but i havent saved the reference. anyway its ancient (i hope) but will still search for that--when theres time-).
The storyteller of Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales defined man as an ingenious machine designed to turn, with ‘infinite artfulness, the red wine of shiraz into urine.’ More accurately, but less poetically, man’s kidneys serve to convert over 1700 Li of blood per day into abt 1li of a highly specialized concentrated fluid called urine. In doing so, the kidney performs some of the most critical functions for survival. It excretes waste products of metabolism, precisely regulates the body’s concentration of water and salt, and serves as an endocrine organ…