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Miss Scarlet said:Pulling out pregnant women's teeth *shudders*
My husband and I just found out we were pregnant this week. This idea made my morning sickness return. lol
Miss Scarlet said:Pulling out pregnant women's teeth *shudders*
Puzzicato said:Did they do that?!
LizzieMaine said:Hey, they weren't *that* bad -- when you snapped your rotten little brother with one, he *stayed* snapped.
Cricket said:My husband and I just found out we were pregnant this week. This idea made my morning sickness return. lol
Vladimir Berkov said:But at the moment there is no clear evidence that DDT does indeed cause cancer. We only think it might cause cancer, and as far as I know the symptoms of large, short-term exposure are not long term.
I am not saying that DDT is totally harmless, but that when used properly the risk of harm is extremely small. When you compare that miniscule risk with the very real and very large risk of malaria in the 40s I would take the risk of DDT any day.
vitanola said:DDT was also the only truly infallible destroyer of the dreaded Bed Bug, which is now being rapidly re-introduced to the USA.
I suspect that in a few years we shall all once again be sleeping on metal bed-steads.
Miss Scarlet said:Congratulations!!!! Gosh I'm getting quite broody myself. I'm so sorry to make your morning sickness return. Woopsy . All the best xxx
MPicciotto said:Help wanted classifieds in the newspaper specifying "White" or "Colored" occupations.
Uranium or Vaseline glass. Do an eBay search and look at some of the sellers pics under blacklight...
Matt
Atomic Age said:There was also "help wanted male" or "Help wanted female"
Doug
Miss Scarlet said:Eek they did. When you're pregnant sometimes your teeth become loose and in the old days (not sure exactly what decades) dentists would just pull them out. That's how my grandma lost her teeth. It really is yucky.
carpecaligo said:What always seemed weird to me, was the notion that hiding under your desk with your head between your knees was the best protection during an Air Raid!
Joie DeVive said:This was back before prenatal vitamins. If a woman didn't have adequate nutrition, the body will rob itself of nutrients, and often a weakened body will have loose teeth. It was said that a woman would lose a tooth per child or something like that. I suppose they pulled them thinking they were helping the woman, but in all likelihood, some of them might have firmed up after the drain on the body passed. Of course that would be weaning, so she might have lost them anyway....