I love Australia!

[anthrobabe]

I've always thought Aussies were amazingly wonderful people with a really interesting homeland - but this just tops the cake

here

btw- the word is that the docs who tried this amazing treatment were dressed as pirates--- Sibling Bluenose? DaveL? who else is from down under
are you practicing medicine now

[Griffin NoName]

A money-spinner for Cap'n Bluenose?

[beagle]

This one comes up quite regularly. See

http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6396381

for example (whisky instead of vodka).  This also explains why in the Sherlock Holmes stories Dr. Watson attempted to cure almost everything by tipping brandy into the patient (when he wasn't skipping surgery chasing gigantic hounds).

[DaveL]

Right back at ya AB!!

I'll have to see if my health insurance includes this treatment. I'm so heading to the doctors!!

[Bluenose]

Well, back in my days in the Royal Australian Navy, I knew a fellow officer who used to swear that at the first sign of a cold he would retire to his cabin with a bottle of Bundy OP (Bundaberg rum Over Proof) and that by consuming said bottle in one sitting, he would emerge the next day with nary a sniff or cough in sight.  It is true that I cannot remember him ever suffering a cold.  OTOH, he did get cashiered for alcoholism....

[Aggie]

Well, back in my days in the Royal Australian Navy, I knew a fellow officer who used to swear that at the first sign of a cold he would retire to his cabin with a bottle of Bundy OP (Bundaberg rum Over Proof) and that by consuming said bottle in one sitting, he would emerge the next day with nary a sniff or cough in sight.  It is true that I cannot remember him ever suffering a cold.  OTOH, he did get cashiered for alcoholism....

Same with my old (restaurant) boss, although his brand of choice was Lemon Hart.  My grandfather always said rum was strictly medicinal.  I practice preventative medicine, personally....

[anthrobabe]

Alcohol is truly a wonder drug!

A hot toddy or hot buttered rum sure helps when one is chilled and damp. Like now- but I'm at work so have to settle for hot tea or coffee- still could be worse.

[Pachyderm]

Ah, Bundie.

Missed a few days to Bundie...