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No wonder they (meaning the people) invented the abacus <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

It was also used as a local anesthetic for painful operations such as eye or dental surgeries. It is the substance that launched the replacement of the comon use of ether.
Cocaine is still used in today's analgesics under the name of Novocaine (or Procaine).

The coca plant was discovered by europeans in the 16th century but it was already long used in the medicine of the native South American peoples.

Other medical innovations coming from Native American peoples: Impact of American Indian Civilizations on Europe and the World : Medicine and Healing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

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From the 1500's to the 1700's, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, toothaches, arthritis and bad breath.

In the 1830s, ketchup was sold as medicine.

Cocaine is a $35 billion illicit industry now exceeding Columbia's #1 export, coffee.

Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.


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Acually, most substans used to sleep or tranqulize (sp?) patients is made with cocaine as pattern, so to say.

And unless you didn't allready know, anphetamine has been medically used as a llose-weight substance (I bet you have a better word fotr that <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />).

Übereil

Folk Medicine

Black chickens are good to bring out chickenpox particularly if you go out to the chicken coop after the sun goes down and let one fly over you.

Tea made from hot water and corn silk will cure bed wetting in children.

The root of rhubarb worn on a string around your neck will prevent stomach aches.

Tie a big red onion to the bedpost and it keeps the ones in the bed from having colds.

Boils are caused by impure blood, you should eat sorghum molasses, raisins and onions.

A dirty sock worn around your neck when you go to bed will cure a sore throat.

Don't let the moonlight shine on your face while your sleeping, it will cause you to go crazy.

A buckeye carried in the pocket will cure rheumatism.

Don't cut your hair in the dark of the moon or it may cause you to go bald.

Tea made from sumac leaves is good for and can cure asthma and hay fever.

An iron key pressed to the back of the neck will cure a nosebleed.

To stop a toothache in your left jaw, tie a string around the little toe of your right foot.

For the right jaw, reverse the directions.

but...but...but...
I love the moonlight.
It's the time of day I'm alive.
Ah, but lukely I'm awake then. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> But Seth! You are crazy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I dont suffer from insanity......

I ENJOY every single MOMENT of it!!!!!!

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-A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second

-Porcupines float in water

-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"

-The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet

-The (USA) Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins

Not Å, Ä or Ö <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. And you missed V too (to take more relevant info <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />).

Übereil

@ Üb
Maybe you need to check your glasses? I'm pretty sure that there is a "v" in it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

It's not my glasses, it's my preception <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. And there still is no Å, Ä or Ö in it. That's a fact.

Übereil

@ Üb
There are no such letters in the Europian alphabet nor in the US alphabet. Maybe they are in the German alphabet, but I don't hear any Germans complain? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
So, the sentence is still right. Maybe you should come up with a sentence that has all the Swedish alphabet letters in it? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Horses can't vomit.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze,
you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Gal, Sweden is a part of Europe , so it is a European alphabet, right <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />?

Übereil

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When did that happen? And why didn't anyone tell me?
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Sweden a part of Europe...
You think they would tell people... but nooooo
They really think they can get away with anything these days. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" /> One of these days someone is gonna say that Spain is part of Europe. Imagine... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" />

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If they cn say Belgium doesn't exist, then what CAN'T they say <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />???

Übereil

hmm Seth is the UK and [nocando]. isles part of Europe yet? reason I asked when I was back home in Holland it wasn't and I have had many a argument over that topic <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Belgium??? UK??? Holland???
This gets more confusing by the minute. What's next?
You guys are scaring me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />

yes , it like we are speaking of countrys <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Yep. And if we're not carefull they gonna expect us to all speak the same language. Europenish... or something. *shivers*
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