tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7194763943017235035..comments2024-03-29T06:12:04.668+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond does its Caterist duty for the day ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-33480971131004123512017-01-11T08:18:16.430+11:002017-01-11T08:18:16.430+11:00Bollocks maybe, DW, but a story that richly deserv...Bollocks maybe, DW, but a story that richly deserves to be true (even if we do have to ignore the vital question as to how Basil Valentine himself survived the treatment - being a deeply honest holy-man he would have taken a 'liberal' dose of the stibium himself, wouldn't he. Even in Johnsonian fiction there has to be honourable consistency, doesn't there ?).GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35416245503912657142017-01-11T06:38:00.718+11:002017-01-11T06:38:00.718+11:00On fire DW!On fire DW!dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-22038127177352528542017-01-10T20:24:38.145+11:002017-01-10T20:24:38.145+11:00Hi GB,
I always liked Dr Johnson’s definition,
“...Hi GB,<br /><br />I always liked Dr Johnson’s definition,<br /><br />“ANTIMONY. n.s [The stibium of the ancients] The reason of its modern denomination is referred to Basil Valentine, a German monk; who as tradition relates having thrown some of it to the hogs, observed that, after it had purged them heartily, they immediately fattened; and therefore he imagined his fellow monks would be better for a like dose. The experiment, however succeeded so ill, that they all died of it; and the medicine was thenceforward called antimoine, antimonk.]<br /><br />Total bollocks of course but a great story.<br /><br />DWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-39476076530413850772017-01-10T17:51:54.530+11:002017-01-10T17:51:54.530+11:00Delightful, DW. So henceforth we can call Cater &...Delightful, DW. So henceforth we can call Cater "The Stibium Kid" (slightly latinizing things for better audibles).GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-52548356940697136982017-01-10T16:06:38.478+11:002017-01-10T16:06:38.478+11:00It's amazing that Cater can write about police...It's amazing that Cater can write about policemen demanding respect and racial discrimination, without noting that the offensive behaviour/language laws are responsible for gaoling hundreds of indigenous men.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808416744757194189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-33400542733582426722017-01-10T16:06:23.377+11:002017-01-10T16:06:23.377+11:00Hi Dorothy,
It’s long been known that the silvery...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />It’s long been known that the silvery grey metal Antimony (Sb) or its sulphides would act as a powerful emetic and/or laxative.<br /><br />Cups cast in Antimony were popular in the 17th and 18th centuries as wine left to steep in them would allow the tartaric acid to react with the antimony, which when imbibed would lead to vomiting and diarrhoea. They were known under a variety of names "pocula emetica," "calices vomitorii," or "emetic cups”. Evidently Captain Cook had one;<br /><br />http://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/ishm/vesalius/VESx2001x07x02x062x064.pdf<br /><br />Another way of harnessing Antimony’s purgative effect was in the form of a pill made from the metal element. Once swallowed it would “purge and revitalise the bowels”. It could also be recovered for reuse, this led to it being called the “Everlasting Pill” as it literally could be passed from one generation to the next.<br /><br />So Antimony is a bit like Cater it gives you the shits and just like the everlasting pill he just keeps on being recycled by the reptiles.<br /><br />DiddyWrote<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-26303508207411515282017-01-10T15:18:43.422+11:002017-01-10T15:18:43.422+11:00"It has to be said, with the best will in the...<b>"It has to be said, with the best will in the world, what an odious, sanctimonious, righteous, totally up himself, prick, jerk, and wanker the Caterist is ..."</b><br /><br />Don't be shy, DP, tell us what you really think of the Cater. [oh how long I've waited to be able to say that :-) ]GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com