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[siam-longings]

Case of an Hydrocephalus Internus, successfully treated by Mercury

First I want to post the following several statements from here concerning a mercury formulation called calomel ─ the author is explaining how such a toxic compound came to practically be deemed a miracle medicine well into the 19th Century: ❝How is it then that calomel, along with other metal salts, was commonly used by physicians for some five hundred years as standard therapy for almost every…

[lawlessspirit]

Case of an Hydrocephalus Internus, successfully treated by Mercury

First I want to post the following several statements from here concerning a mercury formulation called calomel ─ the author is explaining how such a toxic compound came to practically be deemed a miracle medicine well into the 19th Century: ❝How is it then that calomel, along with other metal salts, was commonly used by physicians for some five hundred years as standard therapy for almost every…

[laidback-thrills]

Would you date one of my (terrible) OCs????

* Not associated with Vivziepop / HH/HB in any way ^_^ these r just my guyz

[love13tter]

fav caleb xia fics bc im a lover girl ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

art is by 绝世西瓜 (xhs id 117998996) ˚ . ⊹ ⋆

im a certified baby apple girl Ok i know what i like & whats good so i will kindly share these to the world!! this is for my caleb lovers and pseudocest enjoyers

psa i refer to caleb w nicknames like colonel silly / silly / apple boy etc !! in case ur confused lol ,, ♡ are my absolute favs !! ,,

(,,>﹏<,,) ao3 fics

sugar pit by knightjpg

9.6k words, pseudo-incest, more sex leaning, angry angsty mc at caleb & colonel silly cant bring himself to get angry (i love him)

rotary devotion by kirketeer ♡

35.1k words, very poetry esque, my kind of devotion (aka kinda scary type!!! wanting to live in his skin, being near him/skin touching not being enough etc), sooo angsty from silly’s pov, dont read this if u dont want to be hit with an intense amount of sadness and worry (affectionately)

he ain’t heavy (he’s my—) by kirketeer ♡

8.3k, REALLY poetry esque (so my fav fic by default!), dunno how to explain but the metaphors towards caleb & reader being synonyms + antonyms is making my head spin, dynamic is sooo sweet! kirketeer is a rly good world builder so ure immediately in it all the way (which i love)

the taste of a forbidden fruit (i offer you my heart, bruised and bitten) series by luvl3ss ,, my favs below

> ikaw lang: 1k words, caleb is still caleb, reminds me of this one quote abt how loving someone is having to grieve every version of them :’)

> extra thin!: 0.5k words, apple slicing prefs, really short but its just as sweet as that first bite of a perfect apple slice :P

origin: sine qua non series by tinylethologica ,, favs below

> footprints underneath a pulse storm ♡ 11.111 words (i HAD TO !!! its perfect), based off his deceptive solitude card ^__^ aka the gun cleaning one w the towel barely hanging on around his waist and his v line showing mmmmfffppjhhhh, dynamic is so good they banter SO YUMMILY, caleb and reader being panty sniffers i know thats right!, the sex is a bit milder — it focuses more on dialogue and thats exactly my kind of smut i love it so bad, also um um gun play Nods head. sucking the gun … him fucking reader w the gun uh huh okay that says enough right

> calomel in libation: 4.1k words, caleb knows u better than anyone else (even urself), he eats u out, kinda crazy how he just knows that reader needs to be eaten out after all the stress…. ugh such husband material wheres the ring!!

drive you insane by soarinapple

10.4k words, IM SHAKING omgomgomg SPANKING fic!!!!!! oh hell yeah, he spanks her she counts and thanks him and it goes on sooo long u almost feel it on your bum too </3 oh i wish that was me, aftercare scenes included too ! its so good

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quick psa i read more incestuous things / heavy topics here so be warned! pls ignore or dont interact if u dont like <3

my love, my alibi by prettyboykatsuki

23.3k words, pseudocest (HEAVY. if u dont like it dont interact!!), im gonna be so real rn and just say this has to be my fav fic w the incestuous theme cause this is just ALL about that dynamic between them. growing up together but the lines blur as you grow up and suddenly someone youve always seen as ur brother is hot and u realise he takes care of you more than a brother should, caleb knows u but also. not? idk all i remember is that him cumming in you felt more romantic than it should be

spilled sweetness by piroulinewafers

2k words, pseucocest (heavy), watersports!!!!!!! this is piss focused lol!!! he checks ur bladder thru ur meow meow..... (yummy), kinda crazy kinda not . its kinky for sure esp w the pseudocest theme ...

drabbles by piroulinewafers

> married reader & caleb + jealousy (from reader) 2.4k words

> vv submissive reader & the sweeeeeetest dom caleb ever. he takes care of u when u cant do it urself 1.5k words

drabble (1) by yukinohiko

0.3k words, caleb faking his amnesia (hes so silly), reader/mc being a freak ofcourse and immediately taking advantage of it LOL but the dialogue is the most important part of this fic!!!, analogies of their love bla bla bla, gege & meimei use <3

drabble (2) by yukinohiko ♡

0.5k words, apple boy just loves you so much. it doesnt matter if u hate him or get angry hes so patient sobs, baby (reader) doesnt mean it!!!! she gets so sad when she realises what she did, gege usage, very sweet reader shes so cute in this...

the colonel's saint (part 2 of the colonel's keeper) by saintobio

9.8k words, im not even gonna sugarcoat it part one made me so uncomfy after reading it cause it was GUTWRENCHING in the best way possible!!!!!, the writing was superb but the entire situation made me feel so icky... i cant reread it like i usually do but i could w the second part!!! reader kinda gets her redemption, the last bits were so bittersweet im happy but also not

so fucking domestic by kutepik

1.2k words, hes so cuuuuteeee!!!!! theyre both cute icl, sex whenever and wherever in the house is soo domestic, just very adorbs im gonna eat them Both

[focsle]

I get so annoyed when people are like ‘oh those 19th century idiots with their silly understanding of things that were killing them lol’ when half of it was like…

They knew there was harm but because of various things, be it manufacturing happening out of their control, or what their access or lack of access looked like, or what assurances they were given by whom, what have you, that harm mitigation became more challenging.

Like, people knew that scurvy was treated by access to fresh fruits and vegetables (though there was sometimes a mistaken identity of believing acidity was indicative of something that’d help you, such as vinegar, which is a logical conclusion when you don’t know about vitamin c). But sometimes one still finds themselves in a place or job where that access can’t happen.

Doctors and journalists were sounding alarms about the dangers of heavy metals in dyes and makeup. But If your understanding of how something caused harm didn’t match with the actual currently-not-understood dangers (such as thinking that arsenic kills something when ingested, but not knowing about dust or outgassing) one might not be alert to the danger of it. The power of advertising, and labels, and assurances could also sway people as much as they do today.

There were journalists who wrote on the dangers of adulterated food cut with inedible materials. But if, like heavy metals in dyes and cosmetics, it was embedded in the manufacturing process, and if there was no system in place to hold those manufacturers accountable, there wasn’t much you could do. Especially for poorer families who didn’t often have access to food that WASN’T adulterated. They couldn’t afford food that wasn’t adulterated. You still have to eat.

Some doctors also sounded the alarm about the use of mercury / calomel treatments for various ailments, saying that they did more harm than good. But if that’s the most widely available treatment, if it’s the only option open to you when the alternative is ‘inevitably die horribly from syphilis anyway’, people may have taken their chances. Especially when it was also being pushed by other authority figures as being an effective miracle cure.

Idk all this to say that capitalism always kills, ordinary people trying to get through their lives are always trying to do the best they can in the circumstances they find themselves in with the knowledge they have and what’s available to them, and like…look in a mirror or something. I don’t want someone calling me an idiot 200 years from now, if humanity is still here, because my organs were full of microplastics. There’s nothing I can do about that. Criticize the greed and structures that put them there.

[theshakespearetrash]

💩🌟🧨 for Boromir bc I am a predictable bitch who loves hearing ur thoughts + also any other characters u would like to ramble abt. free reign go crazy w it

THANK :3 Asks from here

💩 : An embarrassing headcanon

I personally wouldn't consider this embarrassing but Boromir would absolutely be embarrassed by the fact that he's got a praise kink like you wouldn't believe. Call him a good boy after he's finished performing a Task/serving someone and he would melt into a puddle.

🌟 : A secret wish headcanon

OOH okay I think the primary wish that he's got is just. Everything kind of knotted up around the subject of the Shadow. Let his people be safe, and come to know a life without war; let them breathe clean air that doesn't choke them with the reek of burning bodies and smoke, and taste water that isn't tainted with blood and ash and volcanic refuse, and see their fields flourish, instead of withering in poisoned soil. Let Gondor's children grow strong and cry loudly and laugh again, and grow to adulthood without the weight of blades or blood or their family's bodies in their hands; let Gondor's mothers and fathers know what it is not to bury their own children, whom they bore to die. Let his land heal, when all he's known his whole life long is sickness. Let his family heal, let them come back to what they once were, let the shadow of despair be lifted from his father, let his brother live the life of the scholar he longs to be instead of the soldier he's forced to be, let Boromir be strong enough to bear them up high enough they might see light. Etc etc etc.

BUT! While he's not the sort to come out openly and Talk about those things, those wishes aren't exactly secret. In terms of secret wishes, I do think there is a tiny part of him that hopes he'll die in service of fighting for peace, instead of living to actually *see* it. He's never learned how to live for peace, can't imagine a place for himself in a society that isn't actively at war, as much as he's trained all his life for the stewardship he's most comfortable on the battlefield and in dark moments when the despair and the hopelessness and the weight of years feel like stones crushing his chest, I think a part of him would be content to lay down his life so that those he loves, those who not only deserve peace but who could actually live and thrive in it, could grow into the truth of themselves without his shadow and weight to drag them back to harsher times. And he would NEVER admit this even to himself, because it feels too much like giving up, it feels too much like failure, but I think that's a bit of what informs his decision to sacrifice himself for Merry and Pippin on Amon Hen. Because they deserve to survive, they deserve to go home. And Boromir who set out on this journey knowing he probably could never go home will go to any lengths to give them that.

🧨 : An unexpected headcanon

Awhile back I saw Emily B. Martin's post about Boromir being dyslexic and it's lived in my head rent free ever since. Sth sth a physical marker of the abject difference between Boromir and Faramir/Denethor, who are both scholars and lore nerds.

GIVING ME FREE REIGN IS DANGEROUS but uhhhh here have some Frankenstein Chronicles whump from our DMs (counts as 🌡 ):

The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction is something that was observed in syphilis patients treated with mercury (the typical preparation of it for syphilis was as something called Blue Mass, which as far as I can tell was prepared with elemental mercury rather than mercury chloride, which was what calomel, another common medicine of that era, was); the same reaction was later observed once penicillin trials began, leading the dermatologists who first documented the reaction (Adolph Jarisch and Karl Herxheimer) to suspect that it was caused by the release of a toxin (later thought to be lipoproteins, which are fun little guys that transport lipids (fats) in water (eg in blood plasma or other extracellular fluids; they can also refer, in the context of bacteria, to the lipids themselves, which bind to the cell membrane and are very difficult to extract) from the dying spirochetes (the bacteria causing the infection). It typically sets in a couple of hours after treatment, and can last for about 24 hours: fun flulike symptoms such as fever, chills, muscle aches, headache, difficulty breathing, flushing/worsening of skin lesions, and low blood pressure ensue.

Generally it's a self-limiting reaction (will go away on its own without anything more than palliative treatment to ease the symptoms), but I imagine that Marlott takes his blue mass at night (as we observe in season one more than once) because he knows that until his body re-acclimates itself to the treatment, he's going to be Suffering for a bit after taking it and ain't nobody got time for that. Add to that the fun effects of mercury poisoning and the syphilis itself (secondary stage with worsening neurosyphilis) and you've got a great recipe for Sad Georgian Man Has A Really Bad Time.

[villainessbian]

Is it okay to ask you science questions? If so, do you know why electrolyzer have three rods sometimes? The Wikipedia diagram only has two, anode and cathode

It's super okay to ask me science questions!

I'm not a big chemistry buff, but all the three-electrode systems I can find have three electrodes of distinct materials, and one of them is always calomel or silver chloride, which are typical materials for the reference electrode.

Now here is where I may be wrong because I literally just dug until I could find stuff that resonated with classes I had over 10 years ago.

Instead of measuring potential, tension, etc only as a difference between the cathode (+) and anode (-), we judge them based on the reference electrode, which we ensure stays stable.

That lets you do interesting and precise measurements, and since it's directly connected only to one other electrode (the working electrode, aka the one where most fun things happen), you can also have measurements on what's happening within only a half-cell.

I'm not sure exactly how useful that is for electrolysis, unless you're just turning the current up until you see bubbles in your electrolyte and take the precise measurement of where it started... but it looks like electrolysers are really just electrode cells used for electrolysis, and you could have something galvanic happen in there if you wanted to.

TL;DR the three rods are for voltammetry, looks like?

[saints-who-never-existed]

Rereading The Terror

Chapter Fifty-Eight: Goodsir

I'll put below the cut the details of how we are to lose yet another beloved character, not least because said details are so numerous and it's likely to be a long one. :(((

Goodsir writes one final entry as he waits for the poison he has ingested to take effect, reflecting first on the confession of sorts that Hodgson made to him some days before in their shared tent. "The Lieutenant whispered, I apologise for Disturbing you, Doctor, but I have to tell Someone I am Sorry." "I whispered back, You are not a Papist, Lieutenant Hodgson. And I am Not your Confessor. Go to Sleep and let me Sleep."

There are some differences to note between book and show. Hodgson's confession is much simpler and to the point, and Goodsir gives more of a reaction to it. He remains silent at first but soon starts to question Hodgson ("Why would You Throw in Your Lot with Mr Hickey if you thought him a Monster" I whispered in the Dark) before eventually giving in enough to put a comforting arm around him until he cries himself to sleep.

One thing that I can't get over and that needs its own bullet point is the fact that Goodsir refers to Hodgson as a boy throughout this interaction ("But I put my arm around the Boy and patted his back while he wept until he fell asleep"). Yet another strange wee thing Simmons appears to have pulled, whole cloth, from his own arse as IRL of course, Hodgson was in fact older than Goodsir, even if only by about 3 years.

Goodsir also refers to Hodgson as a boy when he recounts how Hickey executed him the following morning. :((( "Then he set the long-barrelled Weapon to the base of George Hodgson's skull and Blew his Brains out onto the Gravel." "I have to say that the Boy was Brave at his end. He showed no Fear at all that Morning. His last words before the Pistol's Explosive Discharge were You can go to hell"

Manson strips Hodgson's body naked at Hickey's request and then does the same to Goodsir when he refuses to act as butcher.

Hickey speaks to the assembled men, calling them a "band of brothers" and not letting on that mere chapters ago he was referring to them all as dray beasts with treacherous hearts. Goodsir's refusal, he says, requires punishment. After poking his dick and balls with the barrel of a gun, Hickey eventually elects to cut off two of Goodsir's toes by way of retribution...

Since that first mutilation, Goodsir has lost all of his toes, one ear, and his foreskin (which is honestly impressive to me in terms of surgical precision on Manson/Hickey's part). Enough is enough now - he's poured his remaining Morphine, Opium, Laudanum, Dover's Powders, "poisonous mercury Calomel" and Mandragora into one bottle and has downed the lot.

Before he loses his faculties entirely he makes a confession of his own - that he has in fact gone back on his oath as a doctor after all. He's been lying to Hickey's face about the severity of Manson's wound... Crozier managed to shoot Manson in the stomach during the kidnapping and while Goodsir has told Hickey/Manson that the small bullets didn't penetrate far and it's only his muscles aching as they heal that he can feel, Goodsir lied. The bullets have gone all the way into Manson's stomach and he's dying very slowly and painfully (especially since Goodsir's kept back almost all of the actual painkillers for his own ends). "I Lied." "If there is a Hell - in which I no longer Believe, since this Earth and some of the People in it are Hell enough for any Universe - I would be and should be Cast Down to the Worst Bolgia of the Lowest Circle." "I Don't Care." Below this, I have helpfully annotated - "Damn. GO OFF KING"

As the chapter closes, Goodsir's writing and spelling rapidly deteriorate into near-incoherence. He speaks of his brother - Thomas - and I'm honestly not sure if that's Goodsir's own delirium or Simmons' bullshit as to the best of my knowledge, none of Goodsir's brothers had that name (?) He also mentions great storm that beset the Mutineers some time before his writing. Nice to know that Hickey has received some form of retribution at this point at least: "Winter hs Struke like Gd's Hammmer, and Mr Hickey cuoold do Nothing but set Tarps aside his Thronepinacce and Shoot Half the Men to Feed the Other Half" "Some Men ran away into the Bolizzardds and Died." "Some Men stayed and were Shot." "Some M Froze to Death" "Some Men Ate theother mn and Died Anwwyay"

Nice because, in contrast to the show, Goodsir explicitly does NOT want anyone to consume his body after he's gone or, at the very least, has written a note to pin to his clothes warning that anyone who tries will regret it. I'll finish this chapter on the original content of that note, not the garbled version Goodsir reproduces in his final moments :((( "EAT THESE MORTAL REMAINS OF DR HARRY GOODSIR IF YOU WISH THE POISON WITHIN THESE BONES AND FLESH WILL KILL YOU ALSO."

[curatorsday]

Friday, February 9, 2024

Today I prepared my presentation for next Wednesday's Out to Lunch. Toni Gardner from Cornell Cooperative Extension and I will be presenting "There's No Place Like Home: Household Hazards from Victorian Times to Now." My portion of the talk will be a brief tour of the exhibit Your Victorian House is Killing You which was created by our previous curator Monica Groth.

I plan on drawing special attention to some of the medicines on display including:

Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, which contained opium, ipecac, and digitalis, used to treat coughs and tuberculosis

Acid Areniosum, or arsenic acid, used to treat ailments from asthma to cancer

Calomel, a laxative containing mercury and wintergreen

Tincture of Arnica, a topical solution to treat swelling that causes dizziness, tremors, and heart irregularities if ingested

[binch-i-might-be]

wait a goddamn second. Washington contracted malaria six separate times in his life. and one of the treatments at the time was calomel, which had the long-term side effect of. inflammation of gums. and loosening of teeth. did my man medicate himself out of Having Teeth

[killything]

The two new faces in my HNK fanfic! Talc and Calomel.

[multicarinata]

image for when there's mold or worms or some kind of bug

[nevinslibrary]

Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday

Apparently poisons were big in New York in the early 20th Century, until Charles Norris became the Chief Medical Examiner. And, he, as well as Alexander Gettle, a toxicologist, changed the game, basically forever.

A lot of it is about Dr. Gettler, who would literally go through a deceased person’s organs a little at a time to find the answer to something. He’d prove the innocence of a husband suspected of poisoning his wife (it was mercury in the calomel prescribed by the doctor), or that the Standard Oil workers didn’t just die from ‘working too hard’, but, instead because of the tetraethyl lead they were working with. Oh, and he even proved that radium caused the deaths of the Radium Girls (the women who painted dials on watches).

It was such an interesting look at these cases, and these poisons, and the men, especially Gettler who was definitely an interesting character, that changed much of forensic science so much.

You may like this book If you Liked: Forensics by Val McDermid, The Inheritor's Powder by Sandra Hempel, or American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum

[jomindraws]

Next mineral map for Jom'Gol: HALIDES

NORMAL ANHYDROUS HALIDES Halite - NaCl - (Rose Pink) Fluorite - CaF2 - (Bright Cyan) Sylvite - KCl - (Peach) Calomel - HgCl - (Carmel Brown) Carnallite - (KMgCl3 • 6H2O) - (Tangerine) Cryolite - Na3AlF6 - (Lavender)

Carbonates up next !! Really filling out the map this time....

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

I had a dream that thuyết and my oc calomel were hanging out in a combination museum/bowling alley and were enticed into buying little flask bottles of flavored ale from the refreshment stand for 80 cents each while someone outside hotwired their shared motorcycle in the parking lot. which was actually a setup because the US air force was trying to distract them by selling 80 cent ale so that they could steal the motorcycle and then hit them with a van. I think the moral of this story is any transportation besides trains is bad

a fable as old as time….