Too early for opium to make it to England? Laudanum wasn't around for another 30+ years.
The Diseases, and Casualties in London this Year Being 1632 (this is great)
Too early for opium to make it to England? Laudanum wasn't around for another 30+ years.
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What am I, an encyclopedia?
Hey, you just seemed to know what you were talking about!What am I, an encyclopedia?
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Though I believe this timeline should line up with opium's arrival in the west.
the lungs were considered to be the lightest organ... hacking up a lung..."Rising of the Lights"
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That is one weird list. I don't know what half of those things are.
I had to look up Rising of the Lights. How did asthma or a difficulty of breathing get called Rising of the Lights? The names doctors came up with for things they couldn't explain.
I had to look up Rising of the Lights. How did asthma or a difficulty of breathing get called Rising of the Lights? The names doctors came up with for things they couldn't explain.
When my wife worked HR for a large US company opening retail stores in the UK they tried to offer dental benefits to all the employees and they thought she was crazy. They voted it down, lol.
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"over laid and starved at nurse", there's certainly nothing funny about infant mortality but my first thought about "over laid" sure made me laugh out loud!