Got Lurgi? Try Laudanum!
*brushes away cobwebs and comment spam*
Hello! Life got busy and I went away and twittered a lot, and am now debating with myself whether and how to start blogging again. I'm starting to think I'd prefer to write about science under my real name, 'cos then I can claim it as Outreach and Writing For Lay Audiences and all that, but on the other hand I'd rather not attach my real name to too much swearing and pinko-commie-feminazi gubbins because we all know what nasty internet trollbags tend to do when they both disagree with you and know the email address of your employer. I'm sure anyone with ten minutes and a smidge of savvy could work out who I am, but I count on a. internet trollbags having short attention spans and b. my blog never getting very much traffic anyway, which has worked so far. (By Trollbag Logic, of course, writing pseudonymously is paranoid but writing under your real name is asking for trouble.)
Anyway, the lovely DrugMonkey asked for this picture a year ago. I'd only just got round to sending it to him when I also saw this post about historical attitudes to drugs, which reminded me that I had been meaning to blog it.
This is a page from my great-grandmother's cookery notebook. She was a cook in England in the late nineteenth century (yes, we have long generation times in my family). Elsewhere in the notebook she seems to be planning a menu for a visit by Lord Roberts of Kandahar, so her employers were clearly very, very posh. And, whenever they got a cold, very, very high.
Click pic for bigger. Here's a transcript (as best I can read it):
Hethys recipe for cough mixture
1 pennyworth of each
Antimonial Wine
Acetic Acid
Tincture of opium
Oil of aniseed
Essence of peppermint
1/2lb best treacle
Well mix and make up to Pint with water
I'm rather snot-ridden myself at the moment - can anyone sell me a penn'orth of laudanum?
Hello! Life got busy and I went away and twittered a lot, and am now debating with myself whether and how to start blogging again. I'm starting to think I'd prefer to write about science under my real name, 'cos then I can claim it as Outreach and Writing For Lay Audiences and all that, but on the other hand I'd rather not attach my real name to too much swearing and pinko-commie-feminazi gubbins because we all know what nasty internet trollbags tend to do when they both disagree with you and know the email address of your employer. I'm sure anyone with ten minutes and a smidge of savvy could work out who I am, but I count on a. internet trollbags having short attention spans and b. my blog never getting very much traffic anyway, which has worked so far. (By Trollbag Logic, of course, writing pseudonymously is paranoid but writing under your real name is asking for trouble.)
Anyway, the lovely DrugMonkey asked for this picture a year ago. I'd only just got round to sending it to him when I also saw this post about historical attitudes to drugs, which reminded me that I had been meaning to blog it.
This is a page from my great-grandmother's cookery notebook. She was a cook in England in the late nineteenth century (yes, we have long generation times in my family). Elsewhere in the notebook she seems to be planning a menu for a visit by Lord Roberts of Kandahar, so her employers were clearly very, very posh. And, whenever they got a cold, very, very high.
Click pic for bigger. Here's a transcript (as best I can read it):
Hethys recipe for cough mixture
1 pennyworth of each
Antimonial Wine
Acetic Acid
Tincture of opium
Oil of aniseed
Essence of peppermint
1/2lb best treacle
Well mix and make up to Pint with water
I'm rather snot-ridden myself at the moment - can anyone sell me a penn'orth of laudanum?
Labels: Self-Absorption
posted by MissPrism at 11:03 am
12 Comments:
I reckon do it (blog under your own name, that is). It's been great to read the stuff you've written on the last year or so and I can't believe that anyone would find any of it offensive. Obviously it's your call though!
Either way I hope you start blogging some more again. And shake the cold... :-)
I want some for the kids.
Lovely to have you back. I'd like to flip the pages on your g-grandma's journal and read more.
Do keep blogging (instead of twittering)! Though I don't always read every post, your sense of humor reliably brightens my day.
Thanks very much for the kind comments!
d=0, one of the Sociological Images drug collection is a cocaine product for pain relief in children. Can you imagine TODDLERS ON CRACK? Aaargh!
My mother used to send my brother and me to grade school with her homemade cough syrup: vanilla bottles filled with rock candy and whiskey. This was in the '50s.
the 19thC was a great time for patent medicines- all about opiates, cannabis, cocaine and alcohol. they worked to make you feel better all right..
Thanks for posting this picture and the recipe!
As I understand it the result would be a a calming of any cough and a warm drowsiness that would help you sleep. Think strong Niquil.
When you're sick sleeping is good. No need to be wide awake and feeling miserable when you can sleep through it.
Hello there... I have visited your blog for several times now and its been a while since i last saw any update from your blog. Any plans of updating this again?
Tbe internet surely has a lot of nasty trollbags... just dont mind them...
As one of the online bloggers, it's good to have you back! Keep it up!
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