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Midget Muscarine Mushrooms
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

~ MIDGET  id | SMALL GNAT or MOSCA |
          biol> SMALL DIPTEROUS INSECT
                INFLICTING PAINFUL BITES AND
     VECTOR OF DIPETALONEMA PERSTANS etc
     old eng MYDGE    = GNAT
     old ger MUCKE      FLY
     lat     MUSCA      SAME
     biol>   MUSCARINE  CHEMICAL IN MUSHROOMS
             AMANITA MUSCARIA
     THAT ARE VERY POISONOUS VIA CHOLINOMIMETIC
     EFFECTS OFTEN FATAL MOSTLY
          CARDIAC ALTERATIONS
~ MIDGET  id+ | SMALL PETITE PROPORTIONAL PERSON |
          id+ | perhaps SMALL and FRAIL LIKE A GNAT |
  med> A MEDICAL DICTIONARY DEFINED MIDGET AS
       A "NORMAL" DWARF {meaning undersize only}
  see> DWARF for DISPROPORTIONAL SHORT STATURE
  note other "SMALL PEOPLE"  
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