For All That Ails

**roy365** · 01-21-2008, 12:05 PM

I saw these little things at a buddy of mine's house this weekend. Guess they did things a bit different a long time ago????

rrumaner · 01-21-2008, 02:25 PM

Just remember that Coca-Cola was named that because originally, one of the main ingredients was cocaine. Funny what happens over time. The good stuff gets banned and the bad stuff gets sold daily.

**roy365** · 01-21-2008, 02:28 PM

I just thought it was cool, in a weird way. He got them from his grandmother. hehehe. Still tryin to figure out what the arsenic is for.

**Blackbeauty** · 01-21-2008, 02:36 PM

Arsenic was an ingredient in Victorian fly papers. When soaked in water, it would combine with the water to create a deadly liquid that was easily disguisable in beverages and food. Arsenic was also popular due to its easy availability in rat poison and insecticides.

Up to the 1940s, arsenic was successfully used to treat syphilis; it was a key ingredient in a compound named Salvarsan. It has also been given to leprosy victims and sufferers of yaws (a contagious tropical skin disease).

Arsenic is used today to remove color from glass, as a growth promoter for livestock, as a metal alloy and as a preservative in taxidermy.

I would say it was probably a part of a homemade pesticide concoction for roaches, mice, bugs, etc.....

**roy365** · 01-21-2008, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Blackbeauty

Arsenic was an ingredient in Victorian fly papers. When soaked in water, it would combine with the water to create a deadly liquid that was easily disguisable in beverages and food. Arsenic was also popular due to its easy availability in rat poison and insecticides.

Up to the 1940s, arsenic was successfully used to treat syphilis; it was a key ingredient in a compound named Salvarsan. It has also been given to leprosy victims and sufferers of yaws (a contagious tropical skin disease).

Arsenic is used today to remove color from glass, as a growth promoter for livestock, as a metal alloy and as a preservative in taxidermy.

I would say it was probably a part of a homemade pesticide concoction for roaches, mice, bugs, etc.....

or syphilis?

either way it for something bad.

**Blackbeauty** · 01-21-2008, 02:40 PM

Well, the cure for syphilis is just give them an overdose of arsenic.... At least they don't die from syphilis!

**roy365** · 01-21-2008, 02:43 PM

Guess you wouldnt be as much of a burden then?

I never once thought i would see a set of home remedy jars with that stuff on them.

**DeadRiver** · 01-21-2008, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by roy365

Guess you wouldnt be as much of a burden then?

I never once thought i would see a set of home remedy jars with that stuff on them.

my buddies parents are pretty into antiques and what not... they have some cool **** i'd want in my house like that, minus the ghey flowers..

**roy365** · 01-21-2008, 04:10 PM

When the cups are full, you tend to not notice the flowers as much.

**DeadRiver** · 01-22-2008, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by roy365

When the cups are full, you tend to not notice the flowers as much.

and i suppose you notice even less when you've just emptied them..

**roy365** · 01-22-2008, 11:53 AM

Prolly so......I've seen some straaange things though!!!!

**DeadRiver** · 01-22-2008, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by roy365

Prolly so......I've seen some straaange things though!!!!

ever see purple dots??

**roy365** · 01-22-2008, 12:19 PM

maybe......

Quartz · 01-22-2008, 12:42 PM

A friend of mine has a leach jar from an 18th century doctor's office. I always thought it was kind if unique. She brought it Antiques Roadshow on PBS. Turns out leach jars are fairly common and it wasn't worth more than $100 to $150. She didn't even make it on to the broadcast part of the program.

**roy365** · 01-22-2008, 12:44 PM

They still use leaches alot these days in the medical field. Maybe I should tell my friend to take that stuff to the Antiques show?!?!?!?! It's crazy when someone comes on there clueless with a fortune!