Reign of Terror

[Etranger]

It was rather interesting having LT give us a discourse on the introduction of heroin into the West when either Norm or Tom asked if they could have some in their medicine bag.

This one is for Norm!

[Jeremy]

I thought it only came in during the 1800’s. Shows you how wrong I was!

[MarshalNey]

If it was good enough for Sherlock Holmes......

[Jeremy]

Yeah, but he was 1880’s. This is a hundred years earlier

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

There must be a place for the Purple Pimpanele?

When my older son was at nursery school, one of the assistants - whose name was Ellen - had to take sick leave with a very red, spotty rash, and became known by the rest of the staff as Scarlet Pimple Nell.

[MarshalNey]

Wow, people smacked off their tits in the 1700s.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

In the 1880s the US Surgeon-General recommended to Congress that it set up a contingency fund with which to provide a daily dose of laudanum for all Americans over the age of 10, and gave a whole list of medical benefits.

[levied troop]

If it was good enough for Sherlock Holmes......

He was more into cocaine, as were many Victorians. It was particularly advertised as a cure for toothache, amongst other things.

[Buff Orpington]

It was still being used as a dental anaesthetic when I was young. Well, probably Novocaine, which was the synthesised product.

[MarshalNey]

“It is cocaine, a seven-percent solution. Would you care to try it?” In subsequent Holmes stories, Watson continues the observation of his friend’s cocaine habit.

I suppose those amazing leaps of logic had to come from somewhere.