At 07:05 PM 12/23/02 -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- 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...
This would have been around then.
(By "not too long ago" I meant "within my memory rather than back in the nineteenth century" . . .)
Which reminds me of a joke a former college roommate (who was Baptist) told me: [***skip if you are easily offended***]
Moi?
"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."
I spent 5 years at a university run by the Southern Baptists. ('Nuff said.)
Differences between there and BYU:
The SB university had a coffee urn in the faculty lounge.
BYU had dances on campus.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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