"Narcolepsy? Fainting?"

"Fainting, yes, that's it."

"This only happens to women?" says Beretn, confused.

"From what I've seen, yes. Are there no illnesses like that here?"

"Some, but things like vaginal yeast infections."

"Then perhaps the cause is the stress of making children, and women here don't have those problems."

"Only women make people in your country?"

"It needs a man and a woman together, and the baby starts inside the woman." 

"This sounds like a very inefficient way to do things," Beretn remarks.

"The way you do it here is not possible there. I still do not understand how it is possible here."

"Why wouldn't it be possible?"

"You can't make, I don't know, buildings appear all at once with whatever things you want. At home we can't make buildings all at once, and can't make people all at once."

"- why would making a baby be easier?"

"Women where I'm from grow people inside their uteri, as babies, if they have sex with a man. Is the simple version. What does the uterus do here, if not babies?" 

"They're vestigial, like nipples and appendices."

"Do you mean women's nipples are vestigial or only men's?"

"- both, although I think women are more likely to find them of use in sexual functioning?"

"Interesting. At home women, but only women, can use them to produce a fluid that babies can eat."

"I think I've heard that as a relatively harmless mistake people sometimes make when producing adults, although I didn't know it was a female-only error. It clears up on its own after a while. Babies particularly like the fluid?"

"Yes, eating it is good for them."

"Huh. I suppose you could write that up and someone might find it useful."

"I will!" he says cheerfully. He'll need to get Miriqua to transliterate it, of course, but it will potentially help some infants and definitely be good language practice.

"Now about the everlasting pill, that sounds interesting - we don't usually induce vomiting for anything other than poison - what kind of metal is it exactly?"

"The name in my language is 'antimony', but I would have to ask my translator for the local name--gray, shiny, easy to," he mimes crushing something, "break?"

"I don't know it off the top of my head, so I doubt we have any medical applications for it known here."