Trivia

[okarol]

many soldiers died from dysentery or direaha, that does not seem like too much of a social thing

so a disease -----sexual, venereal

they also died from passing surgical equipment from patient to patient without cleaning them ( the equipment)

What you've mentioned is all true, but this term refers to a specific affliction. Try again.

[twirl]

widespread use of opiates    drug addiction  but I do not know how that would be old soldiers disease


or as Texas say, Old Timers Disease  meaning Alzheimer's  ( joking)

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this is baffling to me
when I taught 8th grade history we taught dysentery was the outstanding reason

let me try again typhoid fever? or is it PKD - it is amazing how many people have PKD   

[okarol]

widespread use of opiates    drug addiction  but I do not know how that would be old soldiers disease

Yes!

The earliest (and often the only) example of opiate addiction as a social problem which is frequently cited by drug experts is Soldier's Disease -- widespread addiction resulting from widespread opiate use in the Civil War. Most writers who report Soldier's Disease devote no more than three sentences to it. Possibly the lengthiest and most graphic description of opiate use in the Civil War, resulting in massive addiction among veterans, was provided by Gerald Starkey, a century after that war:

In 1862 (sic) the Civil War broke out.... They would charge each other, literally pound chains down cannons and fire point blank at the enemy and these young men were presented to their field surgeons with terrible shrapnel wounds ... along with terrible pain.

About all the field surgeon could do was use the two new invented tools that had been presented to him in the previous five or six years I the hypodermic needle and syringe, along with Morphine Sulfate .... They injected the young wounded veterans with huge amounts of Morphine daily (every four hours) to kill their pain.... It was necessary for the surgeons to do full-quarter amputations -- literally take the arms and legs off right at the start of the body, usually to stop infectious gangrene.

In 1865 there were an estimated 400,000 young War veterans addicted to Morphine.... The returning veteran could be. . identified because he had a leather thong around his neck and a leather bag (with) Morphine Sulfate tablets, along with a syringe and a needle issued to the soldier on his discharge.... (T)his was called the "Soldier's Disease."

(Starkey, 1971:482-84)1

"Old" refers to the veteran's who suffered with morphine addiction long after the war ended.

You're up twirl!

[twirl]

I wonder if the morphine made the soldiers feel happier about all the fighting.
I think it is also interesting to know that they boiled hardtack to get the bugs to come to the top
sometimes they ate the bugs for extra protein
love the Civil War
but hated Cold Mountain
gave it to my best friend and he teaches Texas History
the war was not one big love story
so, live and learn-------
have you listened to the Civil War songs? They are great-----eating goober peas
that was one fantastic question........ taught my students it was poo poo not drug addition
we had lots of drug problems in our school but still the truth is the truth
you are a hard "act" to follow---loved the question

[twirl]

Which is the lowest whole number, when spelt out, is in the correct alphabetical order?   

so sorry----

this is the best I can come up with, Sunday nights are hard on me....dreading 4:15am time to get up and go to dialysis

trying to talk myself into not getting depressed and worried

[boxman55]

I googled this. the answer is forty but I don't understand the reason why??   Boxman

I also am up at 4:30 but for hyperbaric treatment then after that I go to dialysis. 

[jbeany]

Boxman, in the alphabet, f comes before o, which comes before r. . . . t. . .y. . .

[twirl]

I did not know you could google that answer.
modern technology - what will they think of next

what is a hyperbaric treatment. sounds worse than dialysis and how long does it take


take forty steps forward and get your A+

[twirl]

Boxman, in the alphabet, f comes before o, which comes before r. . . . t. . .y. . .

                                                                       

[twirl]

Boxman, in the alphabet, f comes before o, which comes before r. . . . t. . .y. . .

                                                                     

[boxman55]

This is the oldest capital city in America. It was originally a Native American village, was settled by the Spanish around 1539, became the capital of its territory in 1824, and today it's the capital of its state. What city is this?

twirl, I will explain the treatment in the diabetes forum...Boxman

[xtrememoosetrax]

Santa Fe, New Mexico

[boxman55]

That is not it, try again...Boxman

[twirl]

San Antonio, Texas




 

heck it I know, I was planning on copying Bullwinkle (Santa Fe)

[boxman55]

Nope sorry keep trying...Boxman

[twirl]

Can you make this a multiple choice

Tallahassee, Florida

[boxman55]

that's it you are up...Boxman

[twirl]

Really

I will never be able to top that question.........
read about your treatments   thanks

[twirl]

what baby animal eats his mom's poo poo
and what does it give him protection against

[okarol]

Young elephants eat the feces of their mother to obtain the necessary bacteria for the proper digestion of vegetation. When they are born, their intestines do not contain these bacteria. Without them, these elephants would be unable to get any nutritional value from plants.

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and I thought I was the only one who watches Animal Planet.......

[twirl]

more than one right answer

  my answer - Koala Bears --- so as they get older they can eat the poisonous eucalyptus leafs

[twirl]

oops   I keep pushing the wrong key

  thought of eating poo poo

Flip  you are it

[twirl]

so sorry
I am not feeling good today at all

I mean okarol you win