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Old 04-16-2006, 09:46 PM
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OK, we read how the surgeons would pass out blue pills. What was in these devilish things?
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Old 04-17-2006, 12:36 AM
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Blue mass was a mercury pill. It could be mercury and chalk, or mercury and licorice root, rosewater, honey, sugar and rose petals.

Mercury was good for what ailed you back then.

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I guess if it didn't kill you it made you stronger! ha!
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