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    Very interesting! Was purple still a restircted color during the empire?

    Augustus seems to have dismantled many "old fashioned" ceremonies and stylistic devices, which makes the period very interesting: purple is outside the scope of the work (as it is built environment only), but I will follow the lead your post suggests to see what happened to the awesomely expensive murex dye. I wonder , did the garments smell fishy?

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    If youve visited my msn blog ,you will see that I have posted even more shots :hammer: relating to each blog entry here.

    The strange thing is that museums seem to fall into three groups, 1. badly set up , but you can take any pictures you wish 2. well set up but absolutely no photos allowed. 3.beautifully catalogued but with a fraction of actual artefacts on show, the rest jealously guarded by mad dogs and gorgon like women.

     

    Perhaps I should get out less.

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    Pertinax, how do the ancient medicines and modern ones compare in effectiveness?

     

    If you hunt about in my blog and the "Roman World Herbal" gallery there are lots of side notes about "modern" usage of remedies. For example, Henbane, which we saw being given to Titus Pullo, is still the essence of modern pre-med anasthesia: foxglove is digoxin the cardio medicine : the best short statement is that the extraction of the active medical principles has improved, but, thats why chemical medicines have side effects, divorce from the plant matrix. Asprin is a small and handy drug but can give you acetelyne poisoning, meadowsweet and white willow (from which it comes) dont have that problem.

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    I suspect two of the main "cough" syrup herbs will be masked by the sweetness of the wine, elecampagne and horehound

     

    Am I the only weird person who thinks that horehound actually tastes GOOD?? or is it just that I've gotten used to taking the tincture either on a spoon of sugar or straight so I have "aquired a taste for it".

     

    Most people will, after initially making bad faces, get used to nearly any tincture-not least because of the effectivness. Sub-lingual ingestion in the pytallin (in saliva) makes very efficient use of any medicine, rather than dropping it straight into a vat of stomach acid.Black Walnut and Wormwood are the two most bitter tastes, though wormwood as "vermouth" adds a piquancy to any fortified wine.

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