Reminds me of some cubes (to be mixed with boiling water and drunk) that my father found in Chinatown many years ago. I think they were called Dr. Lamb’s something or other, and the enclosed information had an absurdly long and varied list of ailments that it claimed to help or cure, including “the plague”. We actually tried it and in fact I think my father continued to drink it occasionally, despite the fact that it basically just tasted sweet.
Dirty Dragon over 7 years ago
“Also a top-notch cure for consumption, Scrivener’s palsy and Portnoy’s complaint.”
katzenbooks45 over 7 years ago
Lumbago – when you hurt your lower back working on your expensive RV.
Daeder over 7 years ago
Lumbago has always sounded like the name of a dance to me. “Everybody do the lumbago!”
Pithy (yeah, right) over 7 years ago
Reminds me of some cubes (to be mixed with boiling water and drunk) that my father found in Chinatown many years ago. I think they were called Dr. Lamb’s something or other, and the enclosed information had an absurdly long and varied list of ailments that it claimed to help or cure, including “the plague”. We actually tried it and in fact I think my father continued to drink it occasionally, despite the fact that it basically just tasted sweet.