Hi Janis,

>> > OTOH, some doctors would have jumped at the chance to try it.

>> Trials for drugs are strictly controlled.. they have to be.. it
>> couldn't be prescribed at that time.  Then again when docs have to

 JK> > Sometimes exceptions can be made. There was a case in our area here
 JK> a > few years ago for a 7 year old kid--he got the drug, did well but
 JK> IIRC, > ended up a couple of years later out of remission.

 JK> That's a shame.  Well, for this drug at the time it would have been up
 JK> to her doctor I expect to contact the company.

And, he didn't know about it or wasn't able to get some to use on a
trial basis.

>> deal with a 75 year old woman who's been smoking since she was
>> probably 12 or 13, what can you expect. And she was a heavy smoker,
>> not like me.  I remember keeping her cartons of cigarettes for a while
>> trying to help her cut down... it was mostly insane trying to make her
>> slow down.  She just couldn't.

 JK> > And probably ruined any taste buds she had after a few years on
 JK> them. > Did she seem to cook with more than the usual amount of
 JK> seasoning?

 JK> No, actually just the opposite :)  Anything she cooked was very very
 JK> bland. Part of that came from the kind of cooking she did, north
 JK> eastern.. but I bet you are right about the cigs killing her taste
 JK> buds.  I remember Ron's dad always doing most of the cooking as they
 JK> got older and I bet that's why that occurred.  I recently purchased a

Interesting.


 JK> number of cookbooks from the 1600-1700's U.S. from a great site.  And
 JK> even those recipes are more flavorful and seasoned better than her
 JK> cookking was. :)

Some of it was done to hide the fact that the meat in a dish was going
bad or something else was going off. With no fridges and not that many
ice houses or suchlike, food spoiled a lot faster. But, a lot of it was
still used, just seasoned higher.

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