tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902531908845941139.post3004362198607908927..comments2024-01-28T05:49:46.861-05:00Comments on Janet Sumner Johnson: The Things I Don't Know (aka Weird Research)Janet Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12688012956157161889noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902531908845941139.post-61868232212278662072015-10-16T09:29:07.414-04:002015-10-16T09:29:07.414-04:00Let's see, one in particular I remember was re...Let's see, one in particular I remember was researching how someone would treat arsenic poisoning in the 1880s. I finally found a plausible answer on Google Books, in the back of a 1903 Cookbook, a section titled What to Do Until the Doctor Arrives. I figured 20 years was close enough to the right time period, (and I found it interesting to note that a cookbook would have a section on treating for poisons AND assume the doctor would be coming to your house, not the other way around.)<br /><br />In case you're wondering, the recommendation was to induce vomiting, make the victim swallow egg whites to coat the stomach, and then mix up a solution with water and RUST. Because iron would bind with arsenic. When the doctor arrived, he would be administering a ferric oxide solution that was pretty much rust and water also.Dianne K. Salernihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459839567235304842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902531908845941139.post-69420405638752005712015-10-13T13:55:13.915-04:002015-10-13T13:55:13.915-04:00I don't remember the strangest thing I researc...I don't remember the strangest thing I researched, but I will never forget the most troubling: Mengele's work with children and twins. I advise you to not look it up. I had to stop working on that story, and I will probably never touch a story like that again.R. Garrett Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10500463578282777835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902531908845941139.post-24410761422908911152015-10-12T15:28:24.019-04:002015-10-12T15:28:24.019-04:00That's a lot to research! How did anyone do it...That's a lot to research! How did anyone do it before Google?Emily R. Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03892444969625637064noreply@blogger.com