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Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts
An anonymous reader writes with good news for people looking for an old cure for an old problem. Trying to ease a bad hangover? Wearing a necklace made from the leaves of a shrub called Alexandrian laurel would do the job, according to a newly translated Egyptian papyrus. The "drunken headache cure" appears in a 1,900-year-old text written in Greek and was discovered during the ongoing effort to translate more than half a million scraps of papyrus known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Housed at Oxford University's Sackler Library, the enormous collection of texts contains lost gospels, works by Sophocles and other Greek authors, public and personal records and medical treatises dating from the first century AD to the sixth century A.D.
I'm sad that this is the first post. What has /. sunk to?
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So, is this why all those Greek scholars and such wore laurel wreaths on their heads? Just in case? :-)
Another text in this collected wisdom authoritatively cites Aristotle as saying that Pythagorus invented the Scroll Lock key. Literally. It's a little key you lock the scroll with.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Any baldness cures in there?
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The next thing to do, of course, is to test the claim and see if it's true or not. I'm sure that you'll find lots of college students who are willing to give themselves hangovers in the name of science, especially if they're going to be paid for it.
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BCE -> Before Common Era
CE -> Common Era
We're trying to move beyond 'Before Christ' and 'After Death'
Lost Gospels, Sophocles, and 1,800 other pages and someone posts about the hangover cure.
I guess we are living a new dark ages.
Don't drink in the first place.
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Who is this "we" that is trying to suppress BC and AD? The dates are exactly the same, so are you trying to feel better about changing the name? The whole "BCE/CE" is so 90s. I thought we had moved beyond the PC "feel good" nomenclature.
To me it makes about as much sense as calling a horse a Equus [latin] because the first syllable of horse sounds too much like a woman of ill repute.
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It's normal that since we Greeks invented drunkardness (Dionysus was a great fellow... but a drunkard) to try cure its hangover - we invented aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) also, probably to help Dionysus: Hippocrates observed that the leaves of the tree (that i don't know how it's called in English, sorry!) producing acetylsalicylic acid helps cure pains and fever.
Wait, these things were discovered like a hundred years ago. They haven't finished translating them? All the folks who know ancient Greek have better things to do? Like what?
I didn't even know they had mobile phones!
Looks like the text didn't pass quality assurance back then and was discarded.
...how is this news?
Whether stringing its leaves and wearing the strand around the neck had any effect to relieve headaches in alcohol victims isnâ(TM)t known.
This doesn't seem like it would have been that difficult to test, but there is no indication that anyone who read it has done so yet.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
What I don't like about BC/AD is that one is English and one is Latin. Pick one, not some ugly mixture! The mixture also means that the placement of the abbreviation is either inconsistent (traditional usage) or grammatically incorrect (getting more common). The grammatically correct placement is to put BC after the date, but AD before the date:
330 BC vs. AD 1983
You could write "1983 AD", but then you are not even being correctly traditional, at which point you might as well just give up and use the newer English abbreviations, which always go at the end.
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You are asking for the Slashdot "editors" to be accurate, or even care about being accurate.
Ain't gonna happen :-(
C.E. = Christian Era, Common Era, Current Era
B.C.E. = Before Christian/Common/Current Era
All English, no latin, and it lets Christians keep their shibboleth if they want to - and it's been in use since the early 1700s by both scholars and theologians.
Since the AD stuff only started in the 500s (CE) it's not like it has any theological importance in either scripture or revelation, whiny Xian claims (boo hoo hoo, we only have 90% mindshare and two national holidays, we're so fucking oppressed) to the contrary.
According to Wikipedia "In Cambodia, the leaves are inhaled as a treatment for migraines and vertigo."
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
But does it work on Romulan Ale?
For a moment you would feel as if somebody had touched off a bomb inside the old bean and was strolling down your throat with a lighted torch, and then everything would suddenly seem to get all right. The sun would shine in through the window; birds would twitter in the tree-tops; and, generally speaking, hope would dawn once more.
It is time tested and well recorded. Really, there is an actual historical record of this recipe working its magic in the morning after an incredible bacchanalian revelry in the Drones club to celebrate the engagement of Augustus Fink-Nottle to Madeline Bassett.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Can we stop using the unscientific term "lost gospels"? Not only are many of these writings simply letters, and not accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus, they were never widely accepted and rarely cited by early Christian writers. They're apocrypha.
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I am not going to say that people shouldn't drink, but if you drink responsibly then you shouldn't get a hangover in the first place.
I can imagine that hangovers were more common in earlier times because alcoholic drinks could have been of lower quality - with more of the chemicals that would worsen hangover. Production and quality control these days are done using scientific methods.
One of those chemicals is methanol, which I would expect there to be more of in moonshine than in store-bought vodka.
Another cause of hangover is dehydration.
So... Know your limit and stick to it, drink high-quality drinks and let every other glass contain a non-alcoholic drink, and then you should avoid the hangover.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Ever wonder if these scholars that translate ancient texts are just making it up as they go along?
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The best hangover cure is the Michelada.
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"Wearing a necklace of alexandrian laurel" probably just means "sleep it off in a bush", much like "hair of the dog that bit you" isn't at all related to biting dogs, except alexandrian laurel's probably smell a bit nicer than the average bush.
Who is this "we" that is trying to suppress BC and AD? The dates are exactly the same, so are you trying to feel better about changing the name? The whole "BCE/CE" is so 90s. I thought we had moved beyond the PC "feel good" nomenclature.
To me it makes about as much sense as calling a horse a Equus [latin] because the first syllable of horse sounds too much like a woman of ill repute. .
Moved beyond PC "feel good" nomenclature? What, are you trying to "fat shame" us all? Quit contributing to "rape culture", and lets all work towards making sure that in school there are "no winners and no losers" - damn, just because "yoor kid kant spel" doesn't mean he should get one of those "Failure" things, it might hurt his ego. Don't worry though, big Pharma I'm sure has a drug for you... "just ask your doctor about (insert drug name here)" as the commercials all tell you.
"Methys" actually means "wine", hence the name. But we know now that's false.. why would this be amy different?