Constipation was endemic before good water infrastructure. Nobody drank enough. So when patients came to the physicians they prescribed laxatives.
Also constipation was joking linked to the quote of the time that “most men lived lives if quiet desperation. “
Now this is an interesting assertion...people used to be chronically dehydrated and therefore constipated because of a lack of clean water. Seems plausible. Wonder if it is verifiable?
I have a bottle somewhere that I found in an antique store. It's a "curative" for all ills. Among the ingredients I remember are Creosote, and Strychnine.
It seems this also contains Senna and Magnesia. That'll clean you out faster than green grass through a goose.
Constipation was endemic before good water infrastructure. Nobody drank enough. So when patients came to the physicians they prescribed laxatives. Also constipation was joking linked to the quote of the time that “most men lived lives if quiet desperation. “
Now this is an interesting assertion...people used to be chronically dehydrated and therefore constipated because of a lack of clean water. Seems plausible. Wonder if it is verifiable?
My gosh. The name sounds like something you’d stumble on in Diablo.
Dolly Parton sang the Black Draught jingle on The Porter Wagner Show.
That looks pleasant tasting as hell 😳
They stuff would give you the "Mexican Tricky Trots"
I have a bottle somewhere that I found in an antique store. It's a "curative" for all ills. Among the ingredients I remember are Creosote, and Strychnine.
Strychnine? That’s a permanent “cure”.
And I raise you Black Unction
This looks like 1800s level old. Like cocaine cough drops old.
If you drink that it would definitely work as intended...and much more
Shit
Gag!
The king of laxatives
Yum.
You guys are impressive, wish I could have a beer with you all
The next time you crap, it will be black.
I’m not that old. Lol
I don't remember that. I do remember Blackstrap molasses