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Men's Fitness, March, 2004

Leeches Suck!

Reconstructive surgeons were getting medieval on their patients by bringing back some old-school leech treatments. Apparently, the little suckers relieved blood congestion associated with the reattachment of body parts-fingers, ears, toes, and Little John Bobbitt. Also making an O.R. comeback--maggots. Before becoming favorites on Fear Factor, docs used these legless larvae to eat away patients' dead, infected tissue.

Bon appetit!

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The company Condomania introduced MF readers to a new way to pack their prophylactics--with the Protecto Pager. Looks just like a pager but it's actually a nifty carrying case for two of your jimmy hats. Sure, you came off looking like a drug dealer, but at least you came prepared without looking prepared, like some presumptuous man-whore. Whatever happened to just stuffing your raincoats in your wallet?

A Side of E. Coli?

Following a fast-food fiasco in which E. coli-contaminated hamburger infected hundreds of people, Men's Fitness reported that cooking beef well enough could easily have killed the bacterium. This had half our readers wondering why the meat had been approved for public consumption in the first place. The other half wondered why Spare was still on supermarket shelves.

10 years ago in Men's Fitness

Men's Fitness, March, 2004

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