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A couple weeks ago I was telling a girl at work how Victorian ladies would eat worms in order to stay thin. The very next day we went to The House on the Rock and I saw this. I thought it was fairly ironic. However, I didn't know it was tapeworms they ate! I thought it was a smaller, different worm. Unless there were different varieties of worms you could purchase? :/
Sorry for the quality. I forgot my camera because Dad rushed me, and so was forced to rely on Mom's phone. >.<
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harui
A couple weeks ago I was telling a girl at work how Victorian ladies would eat worms in order to stay thin. The very next day we went to The House on the Rock and I saw this. I thought it was fairly ironic. However, I didn't know it was tapeworms they ate! I thought it was a smaller, different worm. Unless there were different varieties of worms you could purchase? :/
Sorry for the quality. I forgot my camera because Dad rushed me, and so was forced to rely on Mom's phone. >.<
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harui
Category Photography / Still Life
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File Size 647.1 kB
...and this might not be quite as crazy as it seems. One tantalizing line of research is evidence the epidemic of some autoimmune diseases (allergies, collitis) could be parts of the immune system getting trigger-happy when they can't find the parasites supposed to assault us in our native environment.
Oh yes, that's why it's called a "parasite"--but you don't really think the sellers cared about that, do you? They just wanted their product sold! There weren't any health and safety statutes back then, so they could piratically sell anything, claiming it was something it was not and curing all sorts of ills. That's why cure-alls were so common back then.
And wasn't just medicine, either. You don't want to know what was in Victorian ice cream. >_>
And wasn't just medicine, either. You don't want to know what was in Victorian ice cream. >_>
They really sold anything including kitchen sinks. Things like opium laced cigarettes, opium, chloroform and so on. I remember a documentary about drugs and in the 1800's the cops like people to use opiates above alcohol for the simple reason opiates made people mellow and easy to handle. If you want to see some ways in how they casually, by our standards, used drugs in the 1800's I can recommend the tv series "Copper".
Ever seen the Chaplin movie "Monsieur Verdoux" he walks into this drugstore and casually orders some chloroform and this is in 1947.
Ever seen the Chaplin movie "Monsieur Verdoux" he walks into this drugstore and casually orders some chloroform and this is in 1947.
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