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Jeremy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:42 am 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!

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

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

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

Etranger wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:00 am 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.

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

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.

MarshalNey wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:54 am 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.

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

“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.