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Oregon Trail Card Game: Simple, repetitive, and you’ll die of dysentery

Edit Ars Technica 05 Sep 2016
Everyone of a certain age has their own experience playing The Oregon Trail on a computer as a kid ... Some of us started as bankers and went crazy buying laudanum in the General Store ... Comments ....

Oregon Trail Card Game: Simple, repetitive, and you’ll die of dysentery. A lot. [US]

Edit Ars Technica 05 Sep 2016
Everyone of a certain age has their own experience playing The Oregon Trail on a computer as a kid ... Some of us started as bankers and went crazy buying laudanum in the General Store. Some wanted the challenge and started as teachers ... That’s fine for a card game, though ... Comments ....

The Summer Storm That Inspired Frankenstein and Dracula

Edit The Daily Beast 03 Sep 2016
PARIS — It was, yes, a dark and stormy night two centuries ago ... But on one long night the horror that 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin confronted was writer’s block ... GL Archive/Alamy ... But weirdly glacial temperatures and frequent storms kept them mostly confined indoors, where long philosophical discussions were rumored to have been accompanied with copious amounts of sex, wine, and laudanum, an opium-laced tonic ... AF Archive/Alamy....

At the Start of the Civil War, Few Union Army Surgeons Had Ever Treated A ...

Edit Slate 06 Jul 2016
In this three-page, handwritten document, Baltimorean P.J. Horwitz, who served as Surgeon General of the Navy for the Union during the Civil War, tries to get his fellow medical officers up to speed on the presentation and treatment of gunshot wounds ... In introducing Horwitz's treatise, the anonymous curator notes ... Should he complain of much pain a little laudanum would be serviceable; [...] also and external warmth may be required ... P.J....

How the Founding Fathers overcame sickness and tragedy

Edit The Oklahoman 06 Jul 2016
If the Social Security Administration had been around in 1776, the Founding Fathers might have retired on disability instead of giving birth to a nation ... (And they didn’t have Google.) What accounts for their knowledge? ... For pain, they often used herbal remedies, an infusion made from willow bark which is akin to aspirin, and they used a lot of laudanum, which was a liquid distillation of opium to alleviate discomfort and insomnia ... ....

Health and wellness secrets of the Founding Fathers

Edit Deseret News 02 Jul 2016
If the Social Security Administration had been around in 1776, the Founding Fathers might have retired on disability instead of giving birth to a nation ... Deseret News ... Abrams ... Deseret News ... Abrams ... For pain, they often used herbal remedies, an infusion made from willow bark which is akin to aspirin, and they used a lot of laudanum, which was a liquid distillation of opium to alleviate discomfort and insomnia ... Deseret News ... Abrams ... Abrams....

Music review: Icons-Dvorak: Canberra Youth Orchestra at Llewellyn Hall

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 Jun 2016
Icons-Dvorak. Canberra Youth Orchestra, Llewellyn Hall, Saturday, June 26, 2016, 7.30pm. Edward and Stephanie Neeman returned to Canberra to give stirring performances with the Canberra Youth Orchestra in Saturday night's concert. Two Steinways in concert on the stage of the Llewelyn Hall was a grand event ... The Adagio non troppo in contrast to the lively opening was intoxicatingly lyrical – redolent of Mozart on laudanum ... ....

The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder

Edit New Yorker 22 Jun 2016
It might have been antimony in the lemonade, laudanum in the coffee, morphine in the whiskey, or strychnine in the sugar bowl ... Poison was everywhere in early America, and poisoners could buy it anywhere ... ....

How Francis Spufford's New York novel echoes Cervantes

Edit New Statesman 08 Jun 2016
Two new books help us trace the influences of Cervantes on modern fiction. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... It would be hard to exaggerate Spufford’s success in this task ... ... ... Golden Hill presents a society in which novels are shown, with equal justice, to inspire addiction (one character consumes them “like laudanum”) as well as allergy (“pabulum for the easily pleased”)....

Overdoses lead to warnings about opioid painkillers such as Oxycontin, Fentanyl

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 04 Jun 2016
The opium derivative laudanum was discovered in Switzerland in the 16th century ... Patten, an "able journalist", dead from "an overdose of laudanum taken to induce sleep" (The Sydney Evening News, 1893); "Childbirth loses its terror" the headline on an article celebrating pethidine (Pittsworth Sentinel, 1950); the NSW ......

Manchester United vs. Crystal Palace: Louis Van Gaal’s Last Stand?

Edit Newsweek 20 May 2016
Louis Van Gaal’s last hurrah? Or a chance at some kind of moribund salvation?. More likely, the FA Cup final between Manchester United and Crystal Palace is a chance for Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal to say goodbye on a rare high note, before United administers the final cattle prod and shoves him out of Old Trafford. Try Newsweek ... For Palace, the situation is an odd one, too, laced with a little laudanum in among the rose petals....

Brightoning Up The Riverside (Middlesbrough Football & Athletic Company (1986) Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016
(Source. Middlesbrough Football & Athletic Company (1986) Ltd). What It Means. Originally Beorthelm's farm, by the Domesday Book it was Bristelmestune, lost one syllable to become Brighthelmstone, then another to end up as plain Brighton ... Why It's There ... Georgian London's answer to the Priory, the detox centre of choice after after they overdid the Hock, Sack, Brandy and Laudanum (Thackeray even called it Dr ... Why They're There ... High Point....

Moby Dick on Steroids?

Edit CounterPunch 29 Apr 2016
A white whale does not appear in Ian McGuire’s stomach-turning novel, The Great North. But the similarities with Herman Melville’s masterpiece are numerous ... It is questionable whether he has ever taken a bath ... While in India, he also became addicted to opium, and by signing on as surgeon for the whaling ship, he’s able to see that the ship’s pharmacy is stocked with enough laudanum that he can get a good dose every night ... Ian McGuire.....
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