--- Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > >--- Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Debbi wrote: > > > >Bonus points for those who come up with > *legitimate* instances of alcohol or cocaine use that > promotes > > > >survival (there are several, but they don't > involve addiction either).
> > > Wasn't alcohol used at one time to delay the > onset of early labor? > > > >Yep! Of course now we have other drugs to use, but > >I'd guess there still might be situations where > giving > >birth _right now_ would be worse than inconvenient, > >and delaying by even a few hours helpful (on a > plane, frex). > Some doctors apparently were still prescribing it > not too long ago, as I > have heard guys around my own age at Church describe > being sent to the > state store after the doctor prescribed it for their > wives, and, being good > LDS, they had never been in there before and had > absolutely no idea what to > ask for. Apparently the store employees (in Utah at > least) were used to getting such requests . . . I sincerely hope that was not for pre-term labor; I'm pretty sure that it stopped being acceptable medical practice to use ethanol for that purpose back in the early 80s... Which reminds me of a joke a former college roommate (who was Baptist) told me: [***skip if you are easily offended***] "There are 3 things all Baptist children learn in Sunday School: 1] Jews don't recognise Jesus as the Messiah. 2] Protestants don't recognise the Pope as head of the Church on Earth. 3] Baptists don't recognise each other in the liquor store." (She was one partying girl at the time...responsible mother and wife long since, however.) Frodo's Bathing Song Maru :) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
