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Pills are thought to date back to around 1500 BC. Earlier medical recipes, such as those from 4000 BC, were for liquid preparations rather than solids. The first references to pills were found on papyruses in ancient Egypt, and contained bread dough, honey or grease. Medicinal ingredients, such as plant powders or spices, were mixed in and formed by hand to make little balls, or pills. In ancient Greece, such medicines were known as katapotia ("something to be swallowed"), and the Roman scholar Pliny, who lived from 23-79 AD, first gave a name to what we now call pills, calling them pilula.
Pills have always been difficult to swallow and efforts long have been made to make them go down easier. In medieval times, people coated pills with slippery plant substances. Another approach, used as recently as the 19th century, was to gild them in gold and silver, although this often meant that they would pass through the digestive tract with no effect. In the 1800s sugar-coating and gelatin-coating was invented, as were gelatin capsules.
In 1843, the British painter and inventor William Brockedon was granted a patent for a machine capable of "Shaping Pills, Lozenges and Black Lead by Pressure in Dies". The device was capable of compressing powder into a tablet without use of an adhesive.
A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. 'Much obliged', said he, pushing the plate aside; 'I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
- Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.
- Kathleen Mifsud
Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.
-Cathleen McGuigan
One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.
- J. Robert Moskin
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
- Diogenes
It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
- Anonymous author
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taken today - 15. 10. 2006, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes
Sunrise was one of those straight yellow/orange glow affairs due to the lack of any clouds in the sky this morning, so I turned 180° and photographed this pill box and the glowing sky behind me which looked a lot more interesting.
Now, I have photographed this particular Pill Box (just behind the new Graveyard at the rear of Dunmow Church), but I've never had a strong enough photograph to publish...is it strong enough today...possibly not...but it's the best I have ;-) and sometimes, that's good enough.
Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
Wait until the dust settles
"You Learn"
Alanis Morissette
bonbon - mavis
Psycho Pills - Serenity Skin // EVO X 🆕THE CRYSTAL HEART
(in use head lelutka Avalon)
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WW2 pill box on the beach at Walton on the Naze, Essex. When built this was on the cliffs, these have now eroded a considerable distance
2/14/2010 - The day I managed to catch some kind of super-flu of evil and the pills I took to try and help the pounding headache I had.
Another image from Belize in 2013 -- going back and brushing up some older pics. This was the first pill millipede I ever found -- about 2 cm. in diameter. Pill millipedes are not related to pillbugs and sowbugs, which they closely resemble. Pillbugs are crustaceans (related to crabs, shrimp, and lobsters), but pill millipedes are Myriapods, the subphylum which includes millipedes and centipedes.
Pink pills for Rosie our cat, she has a thyroid problem and needs two of these a day to keep her well. She watches for me going to the dispenser and sometimes makes a dash under the table to get out of the way.
WILL BE OUT ALL DAY THURSDAY , BUT WILL CATCH UP ON FRIDAY, HOPEFULLY.
Just a cute little pill bug, until you get up close... Focus stack of 25 images, Shot with bellows and a reversed m42 Super Takumar 35mm f3.5 @f8 lens.
The banks of cone brook pill show signs of erosion from the effects of the river Severn that washes in and out every day.
This pretty little pill box was a gift from a friend in Australia. The lid is firmly 'closed' to keep the pills safe inside.
'Closed' for Macro Mondays
Wednesday morning, it’s time to take you energy pills – macro shot of three coffee beans on black background. Strobe : 1 * 1/16 through softbox front with white reflectors right triggered by cactus V5.
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I'm sick. So, to try to combat the sickness, my loving housemate Drew decided he would try to kill me via an overdose.
At least that's what we called them when I was growing up in the Midwest.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F16, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 2x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
To protect themselves Armadillidiidae will roll up into a ball. I simply touched it to get it to roll up, placed it on an artificial flower, and waited for it to unroll.
I certainly never thought I would have one of these. Just one of the interesting things that getting older brings your way...