Re: [CH] first noble savage..
Amber ..???.. (karjah@hotmail.com)
Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:42:30 +0000
lol brilliant!
>From: "Steve M Duddy" <timetiles@icon.co.za>
>Reply-To: "Steve M Duddy" <timetiles@icon.co.za>
>To: "Chile Heads" <Chile-Heads@globalgarden.com>
>Subject: Re: [CH] The quasi-compleat Wilbur L. Scoville biography (LONG!!)
>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:15:20 +0200
>
>I think we should commemorate that first noble savage from a long line of
>noble savages that first took a bite from the fruit of El Grande' and
>decided.... hmmm, that be goodums.
>
>Never having had anything like it before, of course he ate another to make
>sure it wasn't, like, an anomaly (a word he'd hardly be able to put into
>gruntish, so to speak... but, he knew what he meant.). "Yes", he said to
>himself... "Yummy", so he took a bunch home to the family. The Wife of
>course took a taste and thought, "Yeah, right", and being a fine upstanding
>(one of the recently up-standing women, I might add) and club-fearing Woman
>of her time, attempted to do something with it. She carefully stuck a
>clump
>of them onto a rock along with some odds and ends, and created (for the
>first time) a table center-piece, oblivious of the fact that a table at
>this
>stage would have offset it nicely. Hubby came home after the next hunting
>excursion and was roaringly dismayed. "No, Woman! I've eaten of this berry
>and it be something to be consumed!". The Woman of course thought, "Yeah,
>right", and being a fine -yada, yada, yada, and intelligent woman, decided
>(after another taste of her own, of course) that perhaps a delaying tactic
>might be appropriate. After all, anything that is so bright red and so
>pungent as to make men weep, might not make a pantry staple, although it
>could be put to good use as a medicine. After Hubby's behavior last night,
>a colonic cleanser does come to her mind. (remember, he hunts, she
>gathers!). So... Thinking "delaying, and preserving"... she goes down to
>the Aviary on the Island and collects the guano salts that have accumulated
>near the stream.
>
>And the rest is (Ancient) History....
>
>Happy Thanksgiving to the Yanks,
>
>Steve
>Wilderness
>South Africa
>
>
>
>
>
>
>---- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Nelson" <jmnelson@winfirst.com>
>To: "Chile Heads Post" <Chile-Heads@globalgarden.com>
>Sent: 23 November 2002 06:37
>Subject: Re: [CH] The quasi-compleat Wilbur L. Scoville biography (LONG!!)
>
>
>Captain Apathy and any odd ships at sea.
>Born In 1865 is fine but did anyone find the Month and year of birth?
>
>If that date is forever lost perhaps we could decide by consensus on an
>"official" holiday in the Chile head year during a month with no
>pre-existing three day weekend or other holiday. First Monday in . . .
> I remain convinced that this is far to good a date for a chilehead
>party or a hot luck to be lost in the mist of time.
>
>Captain Apathy wrote:
>
> >Who was Wilbur Scoville? No clue.
> >
> >So why, of all the thousands of hits you'll get from typing "Scoville"
>into
> >any common search engine, did I never find any of this? This took more
>digging
> >than I expected. Answer: Search engines are companies and companies need
> >money. Free education? Go buy some hot sauce from these sponsor links
> >instead!! Ok don't buy; just click-through. //rant off
> >
> >Ah well, I feel better. Here's what I've tracked down so far. I'm running
>into
> >dead ends and need assistance. Share what you gots.
> >
> >CA
> >---
> >
> >He was born in 1865. He died. Really. In 1942. Whoo. I don't know where
>he
>was
> >born, nor where/how he shuffled off.
> >
> >Parke Davis was founded in a Detroit drugstore in 1866 and they built the
> >world's first pharmacological research labratory in 1902. And hired many
>an
> >obsessed scientist to help figure out fun things like narcotics
>development.
> >
> >The Way-Back Machine: 1912 is still "wild, wild west", people gawk at dem
>rich
> >folk with automobiles, the NY Times just put up a huge electronic
>bulletin
> >board in Times Square, and Coca-Cola costs 5ยข but doesn't "relieve
>fatigue"
> >like it used to. The Roosevelt / Taft / Wilson presidential election, and
>of
> >course - the Titanic sinks.
> >
> >(I don't know if/where he went to school or when he joined Parke Davis.)
> >
> >Scoville worked at Parke Davis during an interesting time, like when they
>were
> >marketing many types of refined cocaine and cannabis extracts. Competitor
> >Bayer's big product at the time was heroin cough syrup. (and Merck is
> >producing cocaine by the ton.) Ah, medicine and science! This has nothing
>to
> >do with Scoville other than to say, this is probably the perfect time to
> >subject people to capsaicin-induced pain and then question them about it.
> >
> >Scoville won two awards from the American Pharmaceutical Association
>(APhA) -
> >in 1922 he was awarded the Ebert Prize and in 1929 the Remington Honor
>Medal.
> >Coincidentally the Ebert Prize is given to "...recognize the author(s) of
>the
> >best report of original investigation of a medicinal substance..."
> >
> >He won APhA's top award in 1929, he also received an honary Doctor of
>Science
> >from Columbia University that same year. I'm assuming it was for the Art
>of
> >Compounding and not the S.O.T. but Parke Davis Co was spitting out
>patents
>and
> >products even faster than the other 4 big drug companies.
> >
> >"The Art of Compounding" was a hugely popular work, first published in
>1895
> >and was a pharmacological reference until at least 1960 (8+ editions). He
> >completely re-wrote a Harry Beckwith book in it's 4th revision "How To
>Get
> >Registered: Home Study for Pharmaceutical Students" in 1909. And, he did
> >another book called "Extracts & Perfumes" containing hundreds of
> >formulations... after all, he understands the art of compounding. :-)
> >(Scholarly type rare book stores can still locate these originals.)
> >
> >What makes this quasi-compleat is that I cannot find data to substantiate
>the
> >1912 date, the original research papers, what building he worked in, his
> >family life, etc... Then again with 1914 bringing large-scale death and
> >destruction worldwide... I'm sure with a bit more research we could track
>his
> >parents and immediate family, but I'm running out of resources.
>(Brittanica,
> >Groliers, World Book, etc have no mention of him.)
> >
> >That's the point; he's unknown because it wasn't important to the whole
> >world... even for us he didn't exist but for this one act. People were
>more
> >interested in the new inventions of the times - and war. Categorizing the
>heat
> >levels of a plant no one eats? Nobody cared. And the Art of Compounding,
>well,
> >you'd have to be a geeky apothecary type to know or care - back then that
> >would probably be larger than chile geeks.
> >
> >Photos? One. This is the only one I have found so far. It resides at the
> >National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division. Copyright
> >compliance is your deal. (Almost every medical and scientific book of
>that
> >time was printed by P. Blakiston's Son & Co. out of Philadelphia, PA -
>good
> >luck!)
> >
> >http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/ihm/images/B/22/911.jpg
> >
> >If you have any additional data (or corrections) please email or post
> >publically.
> >
> >Pods away,
> >CA
> >
> >----------
> >REFERENCES
> >----------
> >
> >Library of Congress
> >Historical Collections of the National Digital Library
> >National Archives and Records Administration
> >University of Michigan NOTIS database
> >The College of Pharmacy at Washington State University
> >National Library of Medicine
> >Columbia University Ceremonies Archive
> >Michigan State Historic Preservation Office
> >American Pharmaceutical Association
> >University of Massachusetts Medical School ENDEAVOR
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Amber Leonard
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