Mar-23-12
 | | GrahamClayton: Joseph Palmer Morgan (29 Nov 1866-2 Nov 1899) died of consumption. He was well known in Philadelphia as a Christian Scientist who had a deep opposition to traditional medical care. |
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| Jun-28-13 | | Abdel Irada: <GrahamClayton: Joseph Palmer Morgan (29 Nov 1866-2 Nov 1899) died of consumption. He was well known in Philadelphia as a Christian Scientist who had a deep opposition to traditional medical care.> I'm not sure how much medicine could have done to control his tuberculosis at the end of the 19th century, but I can't help wondering whether we see here yet another life shortened by misguided faith. At one time, I dated a Christian Scientist, and to be sure she was a sweet young woman; I have nothing against members of that faith as such. But I am concerned that their opposition to medicine sometimes seems to endanger not only them, but those who count on them. And when that happens — and especially when a child dies for want of treatment — misgivings are natural. ∞ |
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| Jun-28-13 | | TheFocus: Consumption, aka tuberculosis, did not have real cure until 1921, so the medical care in 1899 was still primitive at best. Usually, people were sent to a dry climate in hopes of easing their condition. This did not prolong their lives to any extent, but it did aid in relieving some of their symptoms and conditions. |
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| Jun-28-13 | | norami: Odd bit of trivia - J. P. Morgan's uncle wrote the song "Jingle Bells". |
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| Jun-28-13 | | TheFocus: It was written by James Lord Pierpont.
Odd trivia - it was originally written as a Thanksgiving song, not a Christmas carol. |
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Jun-28-13
 | | Phony Benoni: So back in the 19th century snowy weather started a month earlier? If that doesn't prove that global warming exists, I don't know what will. |
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Dec-24-13
 | | offramp: <TheFocus: It was written by James Lord Pierpont.>
Who wrote it while acting as England's Chief Executioner. |
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| Dec-24-13 | | pawn to QB4: no, the executioner was my uncle Albert (Pierrepoint) not the American songwriter; back in the day I suppose it would be best not to mix up the two when making a booking. |
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Jun-20-14
| | offramp: I took Albert Pierrepoint to see <Hangmen Also Die!> and he was so upset we had to leave early. |
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Jun-20-14
 | | HeMateMe: Are you referencing England's chief hangman, who offed about 30 killers, but retired in the 1960s when the U.K. abolished capital punishment? Terrific movie. I also loved "The Krays." about the twins of London's 1960s underworld. |
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Jun-20-14
| | offramp: <HeMateMe: Are you referencing England's chief hangman, who offed about 30 killers, but retired in the 1960s when the U.K. abolished capital punishment?> "Retired" very much in inverted commas... |
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Jun-20-14
| | HeMateMe: I loved the scene where he told his young apprentice how, one had to very carefully weigh the doomed, which would determine the length by which they would be dropped from the scaffolding. Too high, and their heads pop right off (bad p.r.), too low and they twist and struggle for minutes, before dying. He had worked out the proper weight/height ratio, which would immediately break the necks of the condemned, which was thought to be the most humane way of employing the noose. National Health had lousy dental prosthetics, back in the day. |
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Jun-30-14
 | | FSR: <pawn to QB4> Are you serious - this guy was your uncle?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alber... If so, did your parents ever threaten to have Uncle Albert hang you if you didn't behave? When capital punishment was abolished in the U.K., did you and the rest of the kids sing, "We're so sorry, Uncle Albert"? |
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Jun-30-14
| | FSR: Note that Joseph Palmer Morgan, like Daniel Edward Parmet, Robert Edward Durkin, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is a "666" man. :-) |
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Jun-24-15
 | | perfidious: <HMM: Are you referencing England's chief hangman, who offed about 30 killers, but retired in the 1960s when the U.K. abolished capital punishment? Terrific movie.> Pierrepoint retired in 1956, but executions were performed in Britain as late as 1964. |
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Aug-05-16
 | | MissScarlett: <Consumption, aka tuberculosis, did not have real cure until 1921...> Later than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo... I recently watched the film <The Other Love> with Barbara Stanwyck and David Niven, released in 1947, where Stanwyck's illness, though not actually identified as TB, is being treated in a sanitorium. |
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| Aug-05-16 | | zanzibar: Aren't the most serious cases of modern drug-resistant TB in effect incurable? Which is partially why the alarm bells are sounding so loudly? <We treat 8,000 cases of resistance a year and now a chunk of those have developed resistance beyond XDR-TB -- incurable TB.Keertan Dheda, professor of medicine at the University of Cape Town> http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/healt... http://www.livescience.com/27052-tu... |
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Aug-05-16
| | perfidious: <pawn to QB4: no, the executioner was my uncle Albert (Pierrepoint) not the American songwriter; back in the day I suppose it would be best not to mix up the two when making a booking.> And people refer to 'fatal errors', come to computers? Dang, that is a mistake one would likely have not got two chances to make. |
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