Early origins of medical science, were probably as deadly as the disease!
Yesterday I heard somebody say, “Put THAT in your pipe, and smoke it!” I have not heard this phrase uttered for decades. I heard people say this a lot, in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Boulder, Colorado during the sixties, but it must have originated way, way, back in our early frontier days. I imagine that when this phrase originally was used, it referred mostly to tobacco smoking, but the indigenous native people inhaled the smoke of leaves, bark and roots of many kinds of plants, trees, cacti and... Sign in to see full entry.