Kindle Notes & Highlights
Part of the reason for their popularity in 1800s America was the largely female-led temperance movement, which warned against the dangers of alcohol but was just fine with opium. As the 1800s ended, two out of three morphine addicts in America were women.
term “banting” was used to mean “dieting” for over a century.
Borborygmy is a gurgling noise made by fluids and gas moving around in your intestines.
“What astonishes me is not the boldness of the operation,” Broca said at the time, “as ignorance is often the mother of boldness.”
“psychovitamins.” He also named his daughter Maria Juana.)
“A night with Venus, a lifetime with mercury.”
