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<DIV>With the advent of the National Health Service and the need to list
ingredients on bottles and packets, things became increasingly difficult for
this sort of dangerous rubbish. As Paul Vaughan puts it in his
autobiography, the mid-fifties were:</DIV>
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<DIV>“the end of an era in the pharmaceutical business. The Celery Tonics,
Soothing Powders, Miracletts and Popular Pellets of yesteryear, the old
survivors from the age of quackery like Fenning’s Fever Cure (formula: powdered
dragon’s blood) were going the way of Mother Siegel’s Syrup and Keene’s
One-Night Cold Cure. The drug industry was now controlled by huge
corporations manufacturing antibiotics and anti-depressants and, gradually, all
the armoury of scientific medicine. Ahead of them, too, were such
disasters as the thalidomide and chloramphenicol affairs.”</DIV>
<DIV>(Paul Vaughan, "Exciting Times in the Accounts Department" (London:
Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995), 54.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart (I haven’t gone yet.)</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com
href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">Stuart N. Clarke</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 13, 2015 8:29 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] puple haze</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I’m off to London this morning (where I will have limited internet access),
so – you will be pleased to know – I don’t have the time to slip into an
anecdotal rant about patent medicines and my childhood, but h<SPAN>ere is the
beginning of A. E. Housman’s parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s
‘Excelsior’:</SPAN></DIV>
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align=justify><SPAN><FONT face=Calibri>The shades of night were falling
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</SPAN>An Alpine village pastor:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>A bird that wouldn’t chirrup,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>‘Mrs. Winslow’s soothing syrup’.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Calibri>Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup contained sulphate of morphia, sodium
carbonate, spirits of foeniculi, and aqua ammonia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was specifically recommended for
babies.</FONT></P>
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<DIV style="mso-element: footnote-list">Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no
href="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no">Jeremy Hawthorn</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 13, 2015 7:59 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] puple haze</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>The overwhelming likelihood, I take it, is that the
purple is the result of some condition such as malnutrition. But I do recall
that as a child I was daubed with various unguents and patent medicines that
turned the skin various colours, including mauve. Do I recall correctly
that one of them was permangunate of potash? Or was that what I used when my
goldfish got fungal infections? Could one of these have been a treatment for
sties?<BR><BR>Jeremy H<BR><BR>Den 13/05/2015 08:52, skrev Stuart N.
Clarke:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I do take it (from my hunting on the internet) that there need be nothing
exceptional about babies with purple eyelids and therefore the implied
argument is that we should not annotate this. However, applying the
principle that “nothing is casual in Woolf”, I would like to be enlightened
about whether or not there is some special combination of poverty + babies +
purple eyelids!</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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