I wonder if they had a battlefield glue like we used in Vietnam for wounds as well.
1 posted on
12/04/2007 6:32:36 PM PST by
BGHater
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2 posted on
12/04/2007 6:32:59 PM PST by
BGHater
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“This is rightly called some kind of superglue because air, water and time have not diminished its bonding properties. We haven’t mixed up a batch ourselves yet, but we can thoroughly reccommend it - it lasts, after all, for 2,000 years.”
Who would have guessed that my wife's secret meatloaf recipe was handed down from the Romans?
4 posted on
12/04/2007 6:36:56 PM PST by
crazyhorse691
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...at a site near Xanthen on the Rhine River where Romans settled before Christ. I wasn't aware that Christ ever settled at a site near Xanthen on the Rhine.
5 posted on
12/04/2007 6:38:24 PM PST by
lesser_satan
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A certain irony, as I recall from the History Channel that one of the biggest problems with the Me-262 was the poor quality of German adhesives.
7 posted on
12/04/2007 6:42:16 PM PST by
Lonesome in Massachussets
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Ecclesiastes 1:9 … nothing new under the sun.
8 posted on
12/04/2007 6:44:50 PM PST by
doc1019
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Lamp oil being a pH germ killer was used in ancient times without knowing it killed germs because they didn’t know germs existed. Wounds healed and people lived when they used the lamp oil.
12 posted on
12/04/2007 7:03:05 PM PST by
MHGinTN
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The adhesive was made from a mixture of bitumen, cattle fat and bark pitch.
Facetiously, wait till we find out the Romans were making an
adhesive that was made of "Buckyballs" (those 60-carbon spheres).
OK, it probably doesn't make "Buckyballs"...but I suspect research
on this old glue is the start of a number of PhD theses!
14 posted on
12/04/2007 7:08:07 PM PST by
VOA
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“a site near Xanthen on the Rhine River where Romans settled before Christ”
Christ had a place on the Rhine? The things you learn on FR.
16 posted on
12/04/2007 7:14:38 PM PST by
toddlintown
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“I wonder if they had a battlefield glue like we used in Vietnam for wounds as well.’
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. I watched a History channel show on Roman medicine. The emphasis was on battlefield medicine for the Legionaries. The level was astounding. They had surgical staples/clamps made from silver,sutures and primitive antibiotics. The knowledge of the healing process was amazing. At least one Roman doctor was exploring the possibility of eye surgery. In a time where the average age for a citizen was mid 40’s the Legionaries age was into the 60’s barring death or serious injury. Their diet was good and they did get lots of “exercise”
21 posted on
12/04/2007 7:28:15 PM PST by
Polynikes
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Frank Welker, a restorer at the museum... And here I thought he only did cartoon voices.
22 posted on
12/04/2007 7:36:15 PM PST by
BallyBill
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Funny how so many people think that ancient or primitive means stupid.
25 posted on
12/04/2007 8:05:02 PM PST by
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Ancient Roman customs included turning aged donkeys into glue, thus the Latin term for the adhesive was tackum democratis (literally "Democrats are Tacky") but more contemporaneously rendered as STUCK ON STUPID.
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26 posted on
12/04/2007 8:38:28 PM PST by
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Oatmeal seems to be a good adhesive, especially if I don’t wash the bowl right away.
28 posted on
12/04/2007 8:40:47 PM PST by
doug from upland
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Maybe this explains why the ancient Romans were considered stuck-up, at least stuck on themselves.
34 posted on
12/04/2007 8:58:50 PM PST by
punster
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I’m not impressed. Now if they come up with Caesar’s Duct Tape...
37 posted on
12/04/2007 9:28:03 PM PST by
Lawgvr1955
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Xanthen? Probably the source of Xanthen gum. /rimshot
40 posted on
12/04/2007 9:52:09 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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41 posted on
12/04/2007 9:53:58 PM PST by
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bitumen, cattle fat and bark pitch
Say that fast three times in a row!
49 posted on
12/05/2007 6:19:22 AM PST by
reagan_fanatic
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