“Cat Brules, you're the living end! You're the worst boy I ever seen.”

Many authors state, almost as a truism, that amphibians are more vulnerable to environmental insults than are other vertebrates and therefore might serve as a kind of “canary in the coal mine,” an indicator of environmental degradation (e.g., Carroll 1999).

muscular wastings

The therapeutical results were judged by the physician and patient separately by way of the parameters: rest pain, kinesalgia, pain following exercise and morning stiffness, at the beginning as well as two and four weeks after therapy.