[extropy-chat] lick your wounds

[Colin Geoffrey Hales]

> http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/846
>
> A natural painkiller more powerful than morphine has been discovered
> in human saliva, and may lead to improvements in the clinical
> treatment of pain, French scientists say.
>
> The compound, called opiorphin, acts on pathways involving not just
> pain, but also emotional responses, according to the researchers.
> etc
>

Which bit works when you lick someone else's wounds?

<<shudder>> to the new triage procedures! Paramendics salivating out the
wondows as they scream down the highway!
eeeeeuw!