Lyme disease can have devastating effects on the body and can trigger autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. The bacteria borrelia burgdorferi has been found to cross-react with thyroid tissue which triggers the autoimmunity by what is known as molecular mimicry.igh doses of iodine are being used by some practitioners to treat Lyme disease and thyroid disorders. Iodine is an excellent anti-microbial but it can also have devastating affects on autoimmune disease including Hashimoto's.
Samuel Hopkins (1765-1840) was granted the first U.S. patent (Patent No. 1) on *July 31*, 1790, for an improvement in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process..
They tell about one of Jefferson Davis's slaves who invented a new screw propeller for steam-driven ships. He couldn't patent it, of course; but it served the South during the war that was fought to keep him a slave. The first patent to a black freeman was given in 1834 to Henry Blair for his new seed-planter. But records of patents, even to freed blacks, are rare before the Civil War. For one thing, black inventors usually put their patents in the name of a white lawyer. That improved chances for acceptance of their invention.