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Consume Consumerism Consummate Consumption
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ CONSUME      id+ | TO USE  DO AWAY WITH  DESTROY |
^              opp is PRESERVATION
~ CONSUMERISM  id+ | DESTRUCTION OF ECONOMIC RESOURCES |
~ CONSUMMATE   id+ | MERIT as per EMEREO as in EMERITUS |
               id+ | PERFECT or VERY WELL DONE |
               lat = CON and SUMMA = SUM
               note CONSUMMATED MARRIAGE or
                    HYMENEOS     sug> HYMEN
~ CONSUMPTION  id+ | DESTRUCTION OF ECONOMIC GOODS |
               med> | DESTRUCTION OF A BODY as per
  "CONSUMPTION" or TUBERCULOSIS or TBC or TB |
  gr   PHTYSIS         from
       PHTHYNEIN     = DECAY as in
  med> PHTHYSIS        TUBERCULOSIS or
       CONSUMPTION     A "WASTING" DISEASE
  lat  CONSUMERE       TO DO AWAY WITH
  lat     SUMERE       or              sug> ASSUME
           EMERE       or              sug> SUBSUME
           EMETO       CONSUME as in   sug>  EMESIS
           EMEREO      MERIT
           EMEREOR     DESERVING
           EMERITUS    WHO EARNED A DISCHARGE
  med>     EMETIC      AGENT "TO DO AWAY" PER VOMITING
  hx> CONSUMERISTIC ECONOMIES TEND TO TRANSFER JOBS
      TOWARD CHEAPER SHORES INDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT and
  A PUSH FOR WORKERS TO TAKE EARLY RETIRENMENT THUS
  PROVOKING AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF
  PREMATURE EMERITI
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