Submitted by Major Reeder on

...anything like MooseNuggets?

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A little hung up Major?

:) I mean it seems that you can't get off the topic of these MooseNuggets? What exactly are you doing with these morsels? :)

Doc Scroggins may be able to perscribe something for it if you ask nice! :)

--
Michael Johnson

-- Michael Johnson

Hmmmm...I don't know of

Hmmmm...I don't know of anything I can "prescribe" to alleviate psycological fixation...we might try opium, and lots of it...I think the surest method would be to trephine and releive that excess pressure on the brain. Have you recieved a blow on the head of late Major? Rest easy, I've never lost a patient from trepanning. Of course I've never actually done it before...it looks easy enough in the drawings though...

Keep taking your blue mass!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Keep taking your blue mass!! Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Never fails

Crpral Bray, you've the making of a fine surgeon at this rate! Although as I said above I don't think "prescriptions" will help in this case. Now if the moosenuggets were "hung up", blue mass would definately be first choice. Nothing like a little mercury to get things going.

Blue Mass, "cleans like a blue tornado"!!

Keep taking your blue mass!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Keep taking your blue mass!! Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Blue Mass

Wasn't blue mass also used for psychological problems, such as depression? Anyway, an enthusiastic "flush" certainly could provide something to distract from the obsession.

Although, what might cure the Major, I think, might be some saltpeter.

But then I am not a doctor. I just carry my comrades to them.

Ill have an order of Moose

Ill have an order of Moose nuggets and a trephaning to go! with a side order of wezel rings and a large frosty chocolate murcury and opium shake, light on the laudnium!
Seamus

"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth

PRIMA NOCTA

no problem

From what I've read, there were no psychological problems that were treated with medicine. You either "dealt" with it on your own if it was minor enough or you were sent to the local "madhouse" or "asylum". There you would have been subject to ALL kinds of torture...err treatments. Remember the presidents wife ended up in an asylum for what was surely severe depression of some sort...

Keep taking your blue mass!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Keep taking your blue mass!! Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Mrs. Davis

I am not aware of Mrs. Davis being sent to any such place! But in all seriousness, are you referring to Mrs. Lincoln after the war or was she there during the war? (No this isn't a Whitehouse joke.) I suspect the latter. History records that she was kept there unjustifiably by her son and eventually won her release through the court system. Judges seemed to have made the better psychologists.

Will

Lincoln and Blue Mass?

Maybe it's an "urban myth". Search "Blue Mass" AND Depression, and you'll get things like this:

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/insomnia/a/bluemass.htm

"Also, during the 1850s, Lincoln became extremely aggressive, even to the point of violence. According to a study published in the Summer 2001, issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Lincoln was taking a medication common at that time for depression, known as "Blue Mass." Other ingredients of "blue mass" were licorice root, rose-water, honey, sugar and rose petals."

But then again I'm not a doctor. I just try to send Rebs to the doctor.

I can't speak from a

I can't speak from a "professional" standpoint but as I said, my reading / research hasn't shown chemical treatment for any psycological disorders. It certainly wasn't common from what I've seen. You'd be astounded how much "wrong" info is out there from even reliable sources. Ask me sometime about the "history" channel's incredible innacuracy in their "history of opium" special (and then stand back). Keep in mind this person advocates getting medical attention immediately if you even breath near a broken thermometer. Also I'm not aware of the mercury / chalk version of blue mass that was "common". Blue mass was used frequently for many varied things, similar to aspirin. It was used to "clean out" the system before trying other treatments. My reading has suggested that the less a doctor knew or cared, the more heavily he'd rely on blue mass.

Will, I was referring to Mrs Licoln's postwar "breakdown".

Keep taking your blue mass!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Keep taking your blue mass!! Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

I think you're all a little screwy

But Doc before you go drilling any holes in the Major's head you might want to consider my cure all remedy, a judicious poke in the posterior with a hatpin. It's well known to cure everything from yellow bellied cowardice to the dog day lazies. I'm sure it would put the Major's case of moose nuggets to rights. After all, trepanning might lead to an allieviation of certain pressures but it could also lead to a severe case MSOH. After the epidemic of MSOH we suffered on the board this past spring, with even you fighting a temporary case, we don't want to be taking any chances. Remember boys, with winter here you should all be laying in a good supply of Guinness just in case the dreaded MSOH should reappear.
~Miss Patti

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~Dr. Seuss

I believe....

...That Miss Patti's suggestion has scared me enough to get over my late ailment all by my lonesome!
Doc you need to take notice here!
I've heard about these "Needle Stick" cures. The use them in the Far East to cure just about everything from Dropsy... to In-Grown toe nails!

"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"

Major Eric R. Reeder
CSO, 1st Division ANV, Staff
Liberty Hill Signals

2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"

Capt Cotton's sense of humor

I was quite pleased to see that Capt. Cotton still had his sense of humor, as demonstrated in a few posts up from here. That whole episode with his missing sense of humor this past year was far to serious.

MSOH scars me more than the avian flu!

I think we should all be concerned though. It's not even December and we are all a bit off kilter. What's going to happen in March or April when the annual MMB War takes place?

Maybe that should be a discussion for the Kitchen Conference! :)

--
Michael Johnson

-- Michael Johnson

Its all fun and games till someone loses an appendage

Better join the NRA now before that sets in so you will have plenty of that "death and dismemberment" insurance. Id say its a little off kilter now because of what seems to most of us was a stunted and weather torn season.. and with the real time press reporting only what can be construed as the most hideous stories known to man, if we are all off kilter is it any wonder to combat the perpetual sense of DOOM and FORBODEING you get from the main stream media....Gas in Farmington is $2.05 and heating oil is hig but not as high as predicted at this point. Bird flu has killed 70 in the last three to four years, in an area that contains what 3 billion people? there are more people killed in snowmobile crashes in a year in the us...
So Be off kilter, eat drink and be merry for tommorrow we might eat drink and be merry once more!
Seamus
(not only off kilter, but out of his kilt)

"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth

PRIMA NOCTA

We've run out of people to fight with.

Mike,

I don't think we are going to see the types of feuds here as we have in the past. An subtle cause of last years fights were over who was top dog on Confederate command in Maine. This actually spread to our Regiment and was cause for me to end up sitting as senior officer in Battalion row for an hour, while our Battalion officers were off somewhere at Borderlands.

As far as MSoH, I wonder where they are hiding "Dutchy" these days.

I am a bit disappointed with the lack of Civil War information on the board these days. I am to blame as well. I also miss the
calendar of events. Next year hopefully will be a fruitful year. Only 44 days left....but who's counting?

Will