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Joseph More   (18 December 2007)

Sculpting a health advantage? Maybe 18 December 2007
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Joseph More,
Retired psychiatrist
Waltham, MA 02453

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Perhaps the exercise gave sculptors greater longevity; or was it painters' use of toxic pigments? Or who knows what?

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