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To: energyplay who wrote (61143)	3/17/2005 6:44:20 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Speaking of spinning, you're no slouch yourself there, fella... :)

To: energyplay who wrote (61143)	3/17/2005 6:48:23 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

>>I do think that Franklin, Paine and maybe Mark Twain (to jump ahead a century) would fun with the purple pill game.<< Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Later he supplied the notorious "Rush's Thunderbolts" pills mentioned in the Ken Burns film about the Lewis and Clark expedition. The pills contained mercury, and recently archeologists have found traces of mercury in the latrines used by the Corps of Discovery. So dangerous pharmaceuticals go a long way back in this country... ;) RUSH'S BILIOUS PILLS earlyamerica.com Fifty dozen of "Bilious Pills to order of Dr. Rush" were included in the medicine chest. "Rush's pills," aka "Rush's Thunderbolts," combined calomel and jalap in one explosive cathartic. The purpose of Rush's Bilious Pills was to rid the body of any 'morbid' elements contained in the blood. They were a catch-all APC and miracle drug and were used to treat everything from malaria and arsenic poisoning to pleurisy and dysentery. Some speculate that the men survived in spite of the bitter medicine.