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sbrothy
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Disclaimer: I have no medical training or schooling.
I know my website is a mess. I'm investing more time in the English version than in the Danish, which might be a little silly as my intended audience really is here at home in Denmark.
Unfortunately my laptop can hardly run Visual Studio connected to github. Sometimes waiting for a semicolon takes 30 seconds or more. Sometimes the computer just blanks out and shuts down, overwhelmed.
As the site is about drugs it dawned upon me (after seeing Gladiator 2 and seeing the lanista's medicus administering "Dragon's Breath" to a wounded gladiator (the protagonist of course) which appears to be scopolamine. He administers that and opium for sewing a wound up (which strikes me as a little soft for a hardcore gladiator getting 20-30 stings. Couldn't he just bite hard down on a stick?!
) The medicus mentions infection (while I I think tetanus would be up there along with it although they perhaps wouldn't know the difference) although I fail to see how scopolamine and opium would be of help there (with infection I mean).
Anyway, scopolamine seems to be a pre-op drug, which among other things, decreases the production of saliva but without much anesthetic effect in itself (unless the combination with opium produces some synergetic effect I havent't heard of).
The film is what it is: popcorn entertainment. It just got me thinking about how far back the knowledge of remedies like scopolamine, digitalis, cannabis, and especially opium really reaches...?
Yeah, I know I can research this myself - and I will - but perhaps we have some historians or doctors here with innate (EDIT: OK, "innate" didn't mean what I thought it did. Why yes it did!) knowledge they're ready to share with a stupid like me.
EDIT: Ech, I'm gonna leave some parantheses here for you to disperse over my "text" above: (((((((((())))))))))).
I know my website is a mess. I'm investing more time in the English version than in the Danish, which might be a little silly as my intended audience really is here at home in Denmark.
Unfortunately my laptop can hardly run Visual Studio connected to github. Sometimes waiting for a semicolon takes 30 seconds or more. Sometimes the computer just blanks out and shuts down, overwhelmed.
As the site is about drugs it dawned upon me (after seeing Gladiator 2 and seeing the lanista's medicus administering "Dragon's Breath" to a wounded gladiator (the protagonist of course) which appears to be scopolamine. He administers that and opium for sewing a wound up (which strikes me as a little soft for a hardcore gladiator getting 20-30 stings. Couldn't he just bite hard down on a stick?!
) The medicus mentions infection (while I I think tetanus would be up there along with it although they perhaps wouldn't know the difference) although I fail to see how scopolamine and opium would be of help there (with infection I mean).Anyway, scopolamine seems to be a pre-op drug, which among other things, decreases the production of saliva but without much anesthetic effect in itself (unless the combination with opium produces some synergetic effect I havent't heard of).
The film is what it is: popcorn entertainment. It just got me thinking about how far back the knowledge of remedies like scopolamine, digitalis, cannabis, and especially opium really reaches...?
Yeah, I know I can research this myself - and I will - but perhaps we have some historians or doctors here with innate (EDIT: OK, "innate" didn't mean what I thought it did. Why yes it did!) knowledge they're ready to share with a stupid like me.
EDIT: Ech, I'm gonna leave some parantheses here for you to disperse over my "text" above: (((((((((())))))))))).
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