The Great Debate

Well, one of my favorite moments in 1897 is when Charity accuses Quentin of wanting to go to the village to see "some slut" rather than stay at Collinwood with her.

You're kidding........did she really say that?  I thought that wasn't allowed on television then.

"Praise the Lord and pass the penicillan?"  Ohmy Gawd....ROTFLOL! That is too much!  

Now no more of the social disease discussion.  Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it!  *shudder*

Quentin...hands down!  Felt that way since I was an original viewer....and I'm sticking to it!

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Always The Quentin Fan, Minja
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Now, the question every DS fan must answer at one time or another......


BARNABAS     or          QUENTIN



Have fun!

-Lindsey

(and I think we all know who Annie and Connie will pick!)

This is a difficult question... let me see.

 During the summer months.. I would love to live with Barnabas, the Old House is nice and drafty, cool in the evenings and I love candles at night.

 For the Winter Months Collinwood and Quentin would be wonderful! a fireplace in every room, it would be so perfect to sit along side Quentin listening to his phonograph.

 Who would not wish to spend half the year with Barnabas and the other half with Quentin?  
 that would be glorious!

  Sarah

"Praise the Lord and pass the penicillan?"  Ohmy Gawd....ROTFLOL! That is too much!  

Now no more of the social disease discussion.  Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it!  *shudder*

Hehehe. I just finished indexing my last volume of a historical medical journal (and the year of said volume? 1897--coincidence? I think not ) I've done at least a half dozen of these volumes and by now have read more articles about v.d., consequences thereof when passed on to unsuspecting wives and their children, and various treatments then I ever cared to. Didn't care too much for all those articles featuring neurosyphilis (if it's not caught in time, it can affect your brain and you go mad), "foul discharges," and pus, but it is a pretty interesting topic really and far more prevalent in the 19th century than I ever knew.

What is really and truly frightening is how diseases and illnesses were treated. My personal favorite: the doctor who thought that too many physicians were taking out appendixes for appendicitis, when really the best solution was to give those patients enemas; surgery being completely unnecessary! Mercury was often prescribed for whatever ailed you and my God, and when cocaine first hit the market--every doctor and his brother was out there pushing it for everything. It was the new miracle drug.

The articles about "neurasthenia" are eye-opening. That's one of those terms that's a catchall: schizophrenia to "hysterical" women. Several inventive individuals created "devices" that would cure these frustrated and hysterical spinsters--forerunners of modern vibrators When a shrink suggested that just maybe epileptics shouldn't be kept in the same facilities as your garden-variety lunatic because it seemed like they really weren't mentally ill afterall, it was considered a daring and radical concept.

When the city of Buffalo started purifying its water supply, the death rate dropped by 50%. For a long time. Many respected physicians argued about the dangers of using diptheria antitoxin even when epidemics were raging.

These are the kind of things that makes you glad not be back in the days of yore

Luciaphil

Hehehe. . My personal favorite: the doctor who thought that too many physicians were taking out appendixes for appendicitis, when really the best solution was to give those patients enemas;

Must be an Incestor of Michael Kenyon of Illinois!

RE: Quentin and possible STD's . . .

Quentin doesn't strike me as the type who would go to bed with the common prostitutes down on the docks. He seems to prefer the challenge of bedding the "proper" ladies, such as the virginal young maidens who serve in the household, and the proper ladies who are already married but unhappy in their relationships. Quentin seems all about the conquest; not much conquering to do with hookers. (The docks are Barnabas' territory, anyway!)

Thank you, Dr. Eric Lang!!

RE: Quentin and possible STD's . . .

Quentin doesn't strike me as the type who would go to bed with the common prostitutes down on the docks. He seems to prefer the challenge of bedding the "proper" ladies, such as the virginal young maidens who serve in the household, and the proper ladies who are already married but unhappy in their relationships. Quentin seems all about the conquest; not much conquering to do with hookers.

Hmmm, I think that you are right. Maybe we should be more worried about Carl, ya' think?

Hmmm, I think that you are right. Maybe we should be more worried about Carl, ya' think?

Oh, I think you're absolutely right, kuanyin.....I think we should be VERY worried about Carl, especially since.......
HE'S BEEN MISSING FOR MONTHS AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry......didn't mean to shriek like that.  

rainey

Oh, I think you're absolutely right, kuanyin.....I think we should be VERY worried about Carl, especially since.......
HE'S BEEN MISSING FOR MONTHS AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I'VE noticed!  Actually, look at what he ends up bringing home -- Pansy!  (Questionable background at best).  LOL

Ya know, Barnabas WOULD have been the one to get all the diseases -- hepatitis, etc.  Just think if they had had AIDS back then.  He would have been a goner -- don't ya think??

-CLC  

I don't know, Connie.....if nothing else can kill him, (except sunlight, and silver bullets) why would AIDS?

The only time I've ever seen AIDS and vampires in the same story was an episode of "Forever Knight" where the Vampires began to die from drinking blood treated with a potential AIDS treatment, but were cured again if they drank AIDS tainted blood. It was an interesting storyline.....but kind of disturbing too.  How many times has medicine offered up a cure that proved to be a killer?

raineypark

wow pretty funny thread here but i going to suggest Lucia to the next surgeon who wants to do an appy
(appendectomy)  at 3 am,that we give an enema instead just to see his face!
also vd untreated is very painful and gruesome and q would have rathered the wolf curse  instead!Very icky!
bur no one has answerd my question about vampires
still engaging in s*x , twice this week have seen it implied on PC and a Susan Dey movie (yes Laurie p as a vamp) i Pretty weird considering they are dead! another icky thought!
jennifer