In a message dated 10/15/2004 12:51:30 PM Mountain Standard Time, gbnewby@pglaf.org writes: In short, sniffing old books can get you high and/or cause hallucination. And if you have asthma . . . I'm trying to work (my own, not PGLAF's) on copying some 1930s translations of Ancient Egyptian medical textbooks. I need them for a book I'm writing. Egad! They are killing me! But just in case anyone wonders, the Egyptians by about 2500 to 3000 BCE had medicine at a height it wouldn't reach again until the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Imhotep was both the architect for the Great Pyramid AND the author of the first surgical textbook known to have existed. He got a lot of practice by studying people who had been injured at the construction sight, but he clearly also accompanied an army into battle at least once, because he also describes battlefield injuries. I would scan them for PGLAF before sending them back to the universities they came from, but my scanner program has indigestion. It's glad to photocopy, but if I ask it to scan and save it lies down and turns up its little curly toes, insisting it HAS saved when it patently has not. Also, one of the books is somewhat bigger than my scanner. Anne