Whenever we got colds in the fifties, we got some
Thantis Throat Lozenges. They worked GREAT!
[link to texashistory.unt.edu]
They coated your tongue and throat red with merodicein,
the mer from merodicein was from MERCURY!
Whenever I got a cold I probably went through a couple tubes
of them, maybe thirty or forty lozenges!

We played with mercury when we were kids.
They make it sound like plutonium!
We all breathed fumes from leaded gas for YEARS.
Every house was painted with lead paint!
I'm in my sixties in perfect health.

These health nuts will be lucky to reach my age.
BTW my grandparents who all breathed coal dust for most
of their lives as EVERYONE in EVERY CITY of America
burned COAL in their homes, not only endured all the purported
insults to their bodies that I did, they strolled through many
more to all live to their late eighties, and two grandmothers
into their mid-nineties. They did EVERYTHING that is
supposedly wrong for you.

One ounce of experience is worth ten tons of theory.